



Glass 
Book 



EARLY GENERATIONS 



Founders of Old Dunstable 



THIRTY FAMILIES 



EZRA S. STEARNS, A. M. 



AUTHOR OF 



HISTORY OF RINDGE, N. H. ; HISTORY OF ASHBURNIIAM, MASS. 
HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH, N. H. 



PUBLISHED BY 

GEORGE E. LITTLEFIELD, BOSTON 
1911 






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SENTINEL PRINTING CO 
FITCHBURG, MASS. 



CONTENTS. 



Acres Family, . 
Beale Family, . 
Blanchard Family, 
Cooke Family, . 
Cromwell Family, 
Darbeyshire Family 
French Family, 
Galusha Family, 
Gould Family, . 
Harwood Family, 
Hassell Family, 
Honey Family, . 
Lovewell Family, 
Lund Family, 
Marks Family, 
Parris Family, 
Perry Family, 
Read Family, 
Robbins Family, 
Searles Family, 

Smith Family, . 

Swallow Family, 

Taylor Family, 

Temple Family, 

Tyng Family, 

Usher Family, . 

Waldo Family, 

Warner Family, 

Weld Family, . 

Whiting Family, 



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PREFACE. 



PV UNSTABLE was granted by Massachusetts and was a 
*-J part of that province until 1741, when a revision of the 
province line transferred the greater part of the original grant 
to the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. The early families of 
this ancient town at the time it was cut in twain were living 
in Nashua, and parts of Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield and Merri- 
mack in New Hampshire and in Dunstable and Tyngsborough 
in Massachusetts. The early records of legislation, civil and 
military appointments, land titles and probate court are pre- 
served in the archives of Massachusetts. The condition of 
jurisdiction and the division of the original grant into several 
townships will find frequent application in the following 
pages. 

I have read Fox's History of Dunstable many times and 
with unfailing interest. It is a vivid portraiture of an ancient 
and prominent town. It was written sixty-five years ago 
and at a time when little attention was given to genealogy. 
A regret that Fox did not extend the family records is attended 
with gratitude that he saved so much from the accumulating 
chronicles of oblivion. 

At the beginning of King William's War, on account of a 
well founded fear of the Indians, a majority of the families of 
the settlement, about 1695, fled from Dunstable to the older 
and better fortified towns. In some instances it was a tem- 
porary absence, but John Acres, Samuel Beale, Benjamin 
Beale, Andrew Cooke, John Lovewell, senior, Joseph Love- 
well, Patrick Marks and Christopher Read subsequently sold 
their farms and did not return to Dunstable. This fact ac- 
counts for the brevity of the record of several families. 

Genealogies of the Adams, Cummings, Danforth, Fletcher, 
Hunt, Richardson and Whitney families are published and 
are easily accessible to all. For this reason these families are 
not included in this volume. The New England Historic 
Genealogical Register contains sketches of four Dunstable 
families; reference is made to "The Butterfields of Middlesex," 



vi Preface. 

by George A. Gordon, A. M., Register, 1890; "Captain Edward 
Johnson of Woburn, Mass., and his descendants," by Hon. Ed- 
ward Francis Johnson, Register, 1905; "John Solendine of 
Dunstable" by Ethel Stanwood Bolton, B. A., Register, 1906; 
"The Woods Family of Groton, Mass.," by Henry Ernest 
Woods, A. M., Register, 1910. 

In the preparation of this volume a constant effort has 
been made to collect and transcribe the date of births and 
deaths and the record of marriages, but the sketches of 
individuals are purposely very brief. A fitting biography of 
several of the persons named in these pages would fill a 
volume. 

To Otis G. Hammond of the State Library, Edward N. 
Pearson, Secretary of State, Dr. Irving A. Watson, Register 
of Vital Statistics, all of Concord, I plead guilty to a chronic 
obligation. Their willing and frequent assistance has renewed 
and strengthened the friendship of many years. 

For the register of the Blanchard family, Mrs. Louisa 
Bethune of Buffalo, New York, and for the record of the 
descendants of Joseph Lovewell, Prof. Samuel Harrison Love- 
well of Quincy, Illinois, have made valuable contributions 
which will be appreciated and esteemed by the readers of 
this volume. 

Joined with these, whom I recall with gratitude, are George 
S. Stewart, an accomplished genealogist, Rodney P. Wright 
of Cambridge, Mass., and Rev. Thomas M. Corson of Salem, 
Mass., who have cheerfully responded to many inquiries. 
With a voice of thankfulness these lines are spoken. 

EZRA S. STEARNS. 
Fitchburg, Mass., 1911. 



THIRTY DUNSTABLE FAMILIES. 



1. John Acres in 1664 was living at Muddy River, an 
ancient name of Brookline, and then a part of Boston. 
A way passing through the land of Tohn Acres was 
confirmed July 31, 1671. Against his name on the tax 
list of Muddy River in 1674, is written "Gone," but 
his name appears in a list of residents dated in August 
of the same year. He married Desire Y e Truth Thorne, 
baptized in Roxbury, March 23, 1644, a daughter of 
William and Mary Thorne of Muddy River. She was 
admitted to the church in Roxbury, July 8, 1666. The 
family removed to Dunstable before ' 1680. A few 
months after a church was gathered "Sister Accor" 
was dismissed from the church in Roxbury to the 
church in Dunstable, April 4, 1686. In 1682, Tohn 
Acres was chosen "to pound, youke and Ring the hogs 
of Dunstable three months ould and upward." He 
lived in Dunstnblp about fifteen years and acquired a 
considerable quantity of land. He returned to Boston 
about 1695. The name in early records is written 
Acres, Acrees, Accor, Acker and Akers. 

Six children were baptized at Roxbury, the birth of 
three of these is on record at Boston and the two young- 
est were born at Dunstable. 

i Elizabeth, born May 18, 1664; baptized July 15, 1666- died 
July 24, 1666. 

H. Desire Y<> Truth, born March 9, 1665-6 ; baptized July 15 
1666. 

in. Elizabeth, born November 24, 1668; baptized November 29 
1668. 

iv. Deborah, baptized, February 26, 1670-1. 

v. John, baptized August 10, 1673. 

vi. William, baptized May 29, 1679. 

vii. Mary, born May 26, 1682. 

viii. Joanna, born January 10, 1684-5. 

1. William Beale, born about 1628, was a prominent 
citizen of Marblehead, Mass. He died 1694. His will 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 

dated January 4, 1693-4, was proved May 21, 1694. 
He was a miller and he bought and sold many parcels 
of land. At an early date he owned a tract of land in 
Dunstable, which was occupied and improved by two 

0f He S m°a n r S ried Martha Bradstreet, born 1632, daughter 
of Humphrey and Bridget Bradstreet of Ipswich. She 
died April 6, 1675; he married, second December 16, 
1676, Elizabeth Tackson, widow of Edmund Jackson. 
She died November 5, 1683, he married, third March 
4 1683-4, Mary Hart, widow of Samuel Hart, fourteen 
children, of whom Samuel and William were residents 
of Dunstable. 

Samuel Beale, son of William and Martha (Bradstreet) 
Beale, was born in Marblehead, July 15, 1654. He 
married in Lynn, March 28, 1682, Patience Lovewe , 
daughter of Tohn and Elizabeth (Sylvester) Lcwevvel, 
see At the time of marriage he removed to Dunstable 
and while he remained he was a prominent factor of the 
settlement. He was town clerk, selectman and prom- 
inent in the affairs of the proprietors. It is evident 
that he was educated beyond the measure of his time. 
His ornate handwriting and accurate diction are con- 
spicuous features of the early records of Dunstable^ 
In 1693 and during King William's War he Returned 
to Marblehead where he died 1699. Patience his widow, 
married second, August 19, 1708. Archibald Ferguson. 
He was a scrivener. They were living in Marblehead 
in 1722. A record of their death is not found, hour 
children of Samuel and Patience Beale. 

i Elizabeth baptized in Marblehead, April 19, 1685; married 
L at Marblehead. December 23, 1703 John Grant born 

August 31, 1682, son of Francis and Susannah (Combs) 
Grant of Marblehead. 
ii. Samuel, born at Dunstable, July 3, 1685, died young. 

Ebenezer, born at Dunstable, January 30, 1687-8. Sidney 
Perley, in Essex Antiquarian, says he was a mariner 
living at Marblehead in 1709, and in 1723 was in London, 
England. 
Patience, baptized at Marblehead, February 21 1696-7 She 
married Joseph Selman, a native of England They lived 
in Marblehead. Their children were Archibald, Joseph 
Samuel, Lovewell, Beale, William, John, Patience, and 
Mary. 



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IV. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 3 

3. William Beale, son of William and Martha (Brad- 
street) Beale was born in Marblehead, August 24, 
1659. He married Elizabeth Lovewell, daughter of 
John and Elizabeth (Sylvester) Lovewell, see. He 
came to Dunstable 1684, and lived here about ten 
years, returning to Marblehead at the beginning of 
King William's War, when the settlement was nearly 
deserted. He died 1711. His will dated May 9, 1711, 
was proved June 27, 1711. Twelve children of William 
and Elizabeth Beale. 

i. Elizabeth, baptized, Marblehead, September 7, 1684; died 
young. 

ii. William, born, Dunstable, March 12, 1684-5; baptized May 
24, 1696. 

iii. Elizabeth, born, Dunstable, November 16, 1686; baptized May 
24, 1696. 

iv. Zaccheus, baptized May 24, 1696. 

v. John, baptized, May 24, 1696. 

vi. James, baptized, May 24, 1696. 

vii. Bridget, baptized, May 24, 1696. One Bridget Beale married 
Peter Honey of Dunstable, see. 

viii. Martha, baptized May 24, 1696. One Martha Beale married 
Andrew Cooke, see. 

ix. Anna, baptized, March 28, 1697. 

x. Joseph, baptized September 11, 1698. 

xi. Patience, baptized November 16, 1701. 

xii. Sarah, baptized March 14, 1702-3. 

. Dea. John Blanchard. It has been stated in print many 
times that Dea. John Blanchard of Dunstable was a son 
of Thomas Blanchard, the American ancestor of a 
numerous family. A son John is not named in the will 
of Thomas, and evidence recently discovered establishes 
the fact that Dea. John was a son of Widow Ann 
Blanchard, who died in Chelmsford, June 24, 1662. 
William Blanchard, the tailor, who died in Boston, 
October 7, 1652, probably was a brother of Dea. John. 
Dea. John Blanchard married about 1657, Elizabeth 
Hills, born 1627, a daughter of Joseph and Rose (Clark) 
Hills. For good service to the colony, 500 acres in 
Dunstable were granted to Joseph Hills, which in his 
will is bequeathed to his granddaughters, Hannah and 
Elizabeth Blanchard of Dunstable. Elizabeth (Hills) 
Blanchard died about 1662, and Dea. John Blanchard 



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married second Mrs. Hannah (Brackett) Kinsley, born 

^eTchdd oT ^ne / andHalS Vackett) Kins- 

W was the wife of Tohn Cummings of Dunstable. 

rherished and his good works were renewed. He died 

J and Lydia Blanchard we^e slam at DunstaUe * 

SVefjX Inllii^ti, andnine of Dea. John and 

Hannah Blanchard. 

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family- 
iii Josiah, born March 15, 1665 ; died young. 
iv . Benjamin, born March 15, 1665, twin. He was hvmg 1693. 
2. v. James, born March 10, 1666. 
1 vi Thomas, born 1668. 

vii. Sakah, born 1670; married January 23, 1694, Robert Usher. 
see. k^ 

4 viii Joseph, born November 1, 1672. 

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July 3, 1706 His son, Nathaniel, born September 12, 1705, 
died young, 
xi. Martha, born 1676; died November 16, 1676. 

2 Tames Blanchard, son of Dea. John was born March 10, 
1666 He married Anna Blood, born March 1, 1671, 
daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Parker) Blood 
He Hved in Groton, Massachusetts and was a town clerk 
feverll years. In December, 1703, and January, 1704, 
he was a soldier in the first snowshoe .company, com- 
manded by Capt. William Tyng. He died from fatigue 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 5 

and exposure in that service in February, 1704. See 
Granite State Magazine, April and May, 1906. Four 
children. 

i. Elizabeth, born June 29, 1694; married July 25, 1717, Benja- 
min Hazen, born, Rowley, February 19, 1694-5, son of 
Edward and Jane (Pickard) Hazen. He married second, 
April 2, 1740, Elizabeth Nutting. He died September 18, 
1755. Three of the four children of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth (Blanchard) Hazen, died young. Their daughter 
Hepsibah, was born February 19, 1724-5. 

ii. Josiah, born June 24, 1698. Lived in Concord, Massachusetts. 
He enlisted May 10, 1740, for the expedition to Carthagena 
in which very few survived. He married July 16, 1719, 
Mary Dudley, born at Concord, February 8, 1700, daughter 
of Joseph and Abigail (Goble) Dudley. Lived in Concord, 
where six children were born. 

iii. Anna, born March 11, 1701, married August 11, 1719, Moses 
Bennett. Lived in Groton. Eight children. 

iv. Eunice, born February 8, 1702-3; died April 3, 1710. 

3. Thomas Blanchard, son of Dea. John, born 1668. He 
lived in Woburn a few years and after 1693, again in 
Dunstable, where he died March 9, 1727. He married 
in Woburn, February 13, 1688-9, Tabitha Lepingwell, 
born in Woburn, May 8, 1661, daughter of Michael and 
Isabel Lepingwell. She died in Dunstable, November 
29, 1696. He married, second, October 4, 1698, Ruth 
Adams, born at Chelmsford, March 8, 1673, daughter 
of Pelatiah and Ruth Adams. Five children by first, 
and eight by second wife. 

i. Tabitha, born, Woburn, February 27, 1689; married Septem- 
ber 30, 1719, Thomas Blodgett, son of Thomas and Mary 
(Parkhurst) Blodgett. They lived in Chelmsford and in 
Westford. He died 1730. She died March 1, 1764. Three 
children. 

ii. Hannah, born, Woburn, November 29, 1690. 

iii. Mary, born, Woburn, September 6, 1692. 

iv. Abigail, born, Dunstable, May 5, 1694; married 1723, John 
Blodgett, born Chelmsford, November 26, 1698, son of 
Thomas and Mary (Druse) Blodgett. They lived at 
Chelmsford and Westford. Three children. 

v. John, born, Dunstable, May 20, 1696. He married at Groton, 
May 30, 1722, Mary Sawtell, born April 11, 1697, daughter 
of Zachariah and Mary (Blood) Sawtell. They lived in 
Chelmsford. 

vi. Thomas, born, Dunstable, August 12, 1699. He was captured 
by the Indians 1724. By wife Elizabeth, he had a son, 
Thomas, born October 20, 1724. A daughter, Hannah, 
married James Brown. 



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Thirty Dunstable Families. 

vii. William, born 1701 ; died in infancy. 
viii. Ruth, born April 1, 1703. 
ix. Elizabeth, born January 13, 1705. 
x. Benjamin, born December 28, 1706. 
xi. Nathaniel, born September 30, 1709. 

xii. James, born December 29, 1711. 

xiii. William, born 1713; married at Groton, ?^*V^ ol 

4, 1734; (2) Nathaniel, born December Zb, UM. 

Capt Joseph Blanchard, son of Dea. John, born Novem- 
ber' 1 1672 He was a man of character and ability, and 
prominent in the affairs of Dunstable He .married 
Mav 25 1696, Abiah Hassell, born May 13, 1673, daugli 
tt of Joseph and Anna (Perry) Hassell. He died in 
1727 His widow died December 8, 1746. They were 
the parents of nine children. 

1774 Fo™ a ecord of their six children, see Cummings 
Genealogy. Dea. Jonathan, not Josiah Cummings, as 
stated in the genealogy, was the soldier in Capt Love- 
well's third expedition who assisted his cousin, William 
Cummings, to his home. 
•i Fsther born July 29, 1699; married Henry Farwell, son of 
Henry and Susannah (Richardson) Farwell. They lived 
In Dunstable: See Hill's Old Dunstable for record of the 
family. 
iii. Hannah, born October 1, 1701; married John Usher, see. 
5. iv. Joseph, born February 11, 1704. 

v Rachel, born March 23, 1705 ; died young. 

Susannah, born March 29, 1707; married Jonathan Farwell, 
born July 24, 1700, son of Henry and Susannah (Richard- 
son) Farwell. See Hill's Old Dunstable. 
Tane born March 19, 1709; married Rev. Josiah Swan, born 
J Chadestown, March 18, 1711-12, son of Ebenezer and 
Prudence (Foster) Swan. Ebenezer, the father, died in 
1716 and Prudence, the mother, was the second wife 
of Rev. John Prentice of Lancaster The son, Josiah 
graduated at Harvard University, 1733, and was a school 
feacher at Lancaster, and was admitted to the church there, 
Mav 11 1735. He was ordained and installed over the 
church at Dunstable, December 27, 1738. After his dis- 
missal 1746, he returned to Lancaster. He died in Wal- 



VI. 



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Thirty Dunstable Families. 7 

pole, Massachusetts. Record is found of two children : 
(1) John, died at Lancaster, June 7, 1751; (2) Frances, 
baptized at Lancaster, October 14, 1750. 

viii. Rachel, born March 21, 1712; married at Woburn, July 31, 
1729, Joshua Converse, born in Woburn, June 3, 1704, 
son of John and Abigail (Sawyer) Converse. He was a 
soldier in Capt. Eleazer Tyng's company, 1725. They 
lived in Dunstable and later in Merrimack, where he was 
a moderator, assessor and selectman. He was drowned 
in the Merrimack river in 1744. She married, second, 
February 9, 1754, Joseph Fitch, born October 22, 1702, son 
of Samuel and Elizabeth (Walker) Fitch of Bedford, 
Massachusetts. He died February 7, 1769. She married 
third, June 3, 1773, John Paige, born October 11, 1704, 
son of Nathaniel and Susannah (Lane) Paige of Bedford. 
She died in Bedford, June 16, 1801. Her children were : 

1. Rachel Converse, born in Leicester, Mass., April 30, 1730; 
married Timothy Taylor. See Taylor register. 

2. Joseph Converse, born November 13, 1739; married May 
27, 1762, Elizabeth Davis. He lived many years in Bed- 
ford. He was a soldier in the Revolution. In 1794, he 
removed to Chesterfield, N. H., where he died February 
10, 1828. His wife died August 10, 1817. Among his 
descendants is Larkin G. Mead, the sculptor. See Converse 
Genealogy, by Rev. John Jay Putnam. 

3. Jesse Converse, born December 31, 1741. He was a 
soldier in the French and Indian War. He was a 
Capt. Nehemiah Lovewell's company of Col. John Hart's 
regiment, 1758. He probably died in early manhood. 

4. Zebidon Converse, born March 21, 1744. He settled in 
Rindge, N. H., and is the ancestor of a numerous and 
prominent family. See History of Rindge. 

5. Thaddeus Fitch, born in Bedford, Mass., March 23, 1755. 
He lived a short time in Rindge and in Amherst, N. H. 
He was a quartermaster in Gen. Stark's Brigade, 1777. 
In 1778, he returned to Bedford. He married, September 
14, 1779, Mary Moor. He died 1819. Three children. 

ix. Eleazer, born December 1, 1715; died April 29, 1717, per 
town records, but gravestone record of his death is April 
20, 1718. 

Col. Joseph Blanchard, son of Capt. Joseph, was born 
at Dunstable, February 11, 1/04. He married at Groton, 
September 26, 1728, Rebecca Hubbard, born at Con- 
cord, February 11, 1710-11, daughter of Major Jona- 
than and Rebecca (Brown) Hubbard. She was a sister 
of the wife of Col. Josiah' Willard, with whom Col. 
Blanchard was intimately associated. He was an edu- 
cated man of superior intelligence and capacity. He 
served the town of Dunstable with ability and credit. 
He was commissioned a Colonel of the regiment of 
militia, which included a large area near his home, 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 

from 1744 until his death, and maintaining intimate re- 
lations with Governor Benning Wentworth, he was en- 
trusted with the assignment of troops from his regi- 
ment to exposed points at the north and west of Dun- 
stable. In 1755, he commanded a regiment in the 
expedition to Crown Point. One of the companies of 
this regiment was commanded by Capt. Robert Rogers, 
with John Stark, lieutenant, who were renowned in 
the ranger service. In the provincial government he 
was appointed a mandamus councillor, but there is no 
record that he acted as such. In 1749, he was appointed 
a justice of the Superior Court and held the commission 
until his death. 

He was the trusted agent of the Masonian Pro- 
prietors, and as attorney he made grants of several 
towns and from 1748 until his death his activities 
moulded the early history of many communities. He 
died April 7, 1758. His wife, Rebecca, died April 
17, 1774. Gravestones in the old burying ground at 
Dunstal.de. They had thirteen children born at Dun- 
stable. 

6. i. Joseph, born April 28, 1729. ^ 

ii. Eleazer, born November 15, 1730; died March 19, 1753. 

iii. Susannah, twin, born November 15, 1730; died before 1758. 

iv. Rebecca, born July 20, 1732; married James Minot. 

v. Sarah, born October 7, 1734; died young. 

vi. Catherine, born November 15, 1736; married Rev. Elias 
Smith, born, Reading, Massachusetts, 1731, son of Benja- 
min and Elizabeth (Burnap) Smith. Harvard University, 
1753. Pastor of church in Middleton, Massachusetts. He 
preached in Dunstable in 1757 and received a call but 
was not settled here. He died in Middleton, October 17, 
1791. His wife died November 17, 1817. Nine children. 

7. vii. Jonathan, born September 18, 1738. 

viii. Sarah, born August 2, 1740; married September 17, 1761, 
Robert Fletcher, born 1727, son of Robert Fletcher of 
Tyngsboro. He lived in Dunstable. He was clerk of the 
court of Hillsborough county. He died September 9, 1793. 
His widow died March 29, 1798. Several children. 

ix. James, born September 20, 1742. 

8. x. Jotham, born 1744. 

9. xi. Augustus, born July 29, 1746. 

xii. Caleb, born August 15, 1749; died young. The headstone is 
illegible. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 9 

xiii. Hannah, born October 21, 1751 ; married April 4 1776 Dr 
kbenezer Starr born, Dedham, May 1, 1744, son of Jona- 
than and Sarah (Dean) Starr. He was a physician of 
^^-Massachusetts. His wi ^ e ' Hannah, died March 
nt 2?" r e m fr ied ^ con d- Rebecca Blanchard, daughter 
oi Hon. Jonathan Blanchard, see. Dr. Starr died 
September 7 798. His widow, Rebecca, died October 19 
1810. Six children of first and one of second wife Re- 
becca born June 8, 1777; died November 1, 1778; James 
ruarv IS 'mo" November 27, 1778; Ebenezer, born Feb- 
ruary 18, 1780; Hannah, born January 26, 1782- Tohn 
born December 30, 1783; Edward, born July 29 1786 
Augustus posthumous, born March 3, 1799. 

Joseph Blanchard son of Col. Joseph, was born in 
Dunstable, April 28, 1729. He lived in Dunstable and 
in Merrimack. Later he resided a few years in Am- 
herst, and about 1800, he removed to Thornton where 
he owned considerable land. He represented Merri- 
mack in the Provincial assembly 1762-1765, and was a 
se ectman of that town several years. He was a skill- 
ful surveyor and he established the bounds of many 
grants and new townships. He was employed by the 
Masoman proprietors to run the straight and later the 
curved line of the Mason patent. 
. He was associated with Rev. Samuel Langdon D D 

NeXsr in mi of the we,i - known ™p * 

Gov. Piumer credits the map to Jonathan Blanchard, 
TrA T7 l? Ve as u su ™. e d that it was Col. Joseph Blanch- 
ard the father, who died in 1758, who was the associate 
of Rev. Dr. Langdon. 

The map bears a dedicatory inscription as follows : 

Secrltarv h at wfr^^n ^ 1 ^^/ 1 ^ T , own ^, His Majesty's 
Councfl &c X£ 'm™ ne ° f f , Hls Majesty's most Honorable Privy 

HZbtlnscHtd^ ° f thC Pr ° V,nCe ° f NeW Ham P shire J * 
His most Obliged & 
Most Obedt Serv*s. 

Joseph Blanchard. 

Samuel Langdon. 

be^lQ^^R^^c^^^ 1 " 1 ^ in Westfo ^, Septem- 
T r TV 174 f 8 ' T Bett y Spalding, born December 4, 1728 
DuiS able He Seph ^ Mar ^ S Palding of Groton and 
ter of Col' ?/ ^ arne r d ' SeC ° nd ' ^ L °vewell, daugh- 
fll S°K Z accheus Lovewell, see. A record of the 

^/• ,S T firSt Wife has not been discovered. The 
second wife, Lucy, was the mother of seven children. 



10 Thirty Dims table Families. 

i. Joseph, born June 21, 1752; died July 10, 1752. 

ii. Joseph, born May 28, 1753. He lived in Chester. He was 
a representative 1787-1793, state senator 1794-1799, execu- 
tive councillor ltfOO, 1801 and delegate to constitutional 
conventions. He died March 7, 1833. He married Sarah 
Calef, born June 12, 1749, daughter of Robert and Hannah 
(Flanders) Calef of Chester. She died December 2, 1793. 
He married, second, Mrs. Dorothy (Johnson) Folsom, 
born, Newbury, Mass., 1747, daughter of Rev. William 
and Elizabeth (Bradstreet) Johnson and widow of David 
Folsom. She died May 14, 1836. Eight children: (1) 
Joseph, married Abigail Rogers; (2) Lucy, married 
Thomas Montgomery; (3) Eleazer, died unmarried 1809; 
(4) Nancy, died unmarried, 1809; (5) Sarah, married 
Josiah Melvin; (6) Cyrus, died unmarried 1809; (7) 
Hannah, married Samuel Dinsmore; (8) Mary, married 
Richard Fitz. 

iii. Eleazer, born June 8, 1755. He was a soldier at Bunker 
Hill and siege of Boston, 1775. 

iv. Lucy, born June, 1757; married Andrew Wilkins, born 1761, 
son of Rev. Daniel and Sarah (Fuller) Wilkins of Am- 
herst. They removed to Detroit, Michigan. Eight 
children. 

v. Catherine, born August 16, 1759, married William Barker 
of St. John, New Brunswick. 

vi. Zaccheus, born December 30, 1761. Receipt for wages of 
Zaccheus Blanchard to May 10, 1783, on the frigate 
Hague, commanded by Capt. J. Manley; receipt signed 
by Joseph Blanchard, father of said Zaccheus Blanchard. 
It is probable that Zaccheus died in service, May 10, 1783. 
See Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution. 

vii. Hannah, born April 22, 1764, married March 10, 1785, 
Joseph Nichols, born November 11, 1765, son of Gen. 
Moses and Hannah (Eaton) Nichols of Amherst. Ten 
children born in Amherst. They removed, 1811, to Canada. 

Gen. Jonathan Blanchard, son of Col. Joseph, born 
September 18, 1738. He lived in Dunstable and was 
prominent in province and state affairs. He was a 
delegate to the fifth provincial congress, 1775, and the 
first house of Representatives, 1776, a councillor, 1776, 
1777 and 1778, a member of the State Committee of 
Safety, from June 13 to December 14, 1777, and from 
December 20, 1777, to May 20, 1778. He was one of the 
commissioners from New Hampshire in the convention 
at New Haven, 1778, to regulate prices and was a 
delegate in the Continental Congress, 1783, 1784, 1787. 
He was the first Judge of Probate under the State 
Constitution of 1783. In military affairs he was a 
major as early as 1765, and a brigadier general in the 



+ 



Thirty Dunstable Families. \\ 

militia 1784-1788. He married Rebecca Farwell, born 
October 9, 1739, daughter of Oliver and Abigail (Hub- 
bard) Farwell. He died July 16, 1788. His widow 
Abigail, died August 12, 1811. They had six children. ' 

i. Rebecca, born May 4, 1766; married Dr. Ebenezer Starr. 
See Hannah Blanchard. 

ii. Grace, born 1768; married December 30, 1790, Frederick 
French, born September 26, 1766, son of Capt. Benjamin 
and Molly (Lovewell) French. See French family. 

iii. Sophia, married Joseph Farwell, born 1772, son of Oliver 
and Abigail (Danforth) Farwell of Merrimack. 

iv. Abigail, born November 20, 1770; married December 15 
1797, Dr. Joseph F. Eastman, born January 4, 1772, son 
of Jonathan and Sarah (Fletcher) Eastman. He was a 
physician of Hollis. He died September 30, 1865 She 
died October 7, 1848. Six children. 

v. Charles, born March 14, 1776. Harvard University 1796- 
died at Batavia, New York, March 16, 1811. 

vi. Elizabeth, married January 7, 1796, Thomas French, born 
May 7, 1768, son of Capt. Benjamin and Molly (Love- 
well) French. Lived at Dunstable. He died May 3 1846- 
she died May 4, 1843. See French family. 

8. Col. Jotham Blanchard, son of Col. Joseph, was born 
in Dunstable 1744 or 1745. He lived in Portsmouth 
and Peterborough in New Hampshire and after 1785 
in Truro, Nova Scotia. A son Jotham is named in the 
will of Col. Joseph, dated April 6, 1758, and proved 
May 3, 1758, and in 1765 and 1766, Rebecca, widow of 
Col. Joseph, conveys land to her son Jotham, a mer- 
chant of Portsmouth. While a resident of Portsmouth 
he was a captain of the Colonial militia. He removed, 
1773, to Peterborough, where he was honored by fre- 
quent election to office during the Revolution. He was 
moderator, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, a select- 
man 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781. He was a representa- 
tive for the year 1778, and was one of the most prom- 
inent members of the sessions of that memorable year. 
March 5, 1778, John Went worth of Dover, Samuel 
Cutts of Portsmouth and Jotham Blanchard of Peter- 
borough were appointed a committee to draft an act 
of prescription and confiscation of the estates of tories. 
He was one of the Committee of Safety in 1776, and 
the same year he joined with the patriots of Peter- 
borough in signing the association test pledging prop- 
erty and life in support of the Revolution. 

Overlooking his record Sabine includes Jotham 



12 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Blanchard in his sketches of the tories of the Revolu- 
tion, but misstates his residence and erroneously says 
he "served in a Loyalist corps." 

It should also be noted that George King, August 12, 
1777, wrote to Meshech Weare : "Mr. Jotham Blanch- 
ard of Peterborough has lately purchased in the East- 
ern Country a quantity of cattle." The writer further 
says that he is apprehensive that the cattle are intended 
to feed our enemies. There is no record that the appre- 
hensions of the writer were shared by the govern- 
ment of New Hampshire. At the close of the Revolu- 
tion there was an animated controversy over the pro- 
posed and the adopted measures of organic law, and it is 
possible that Jotham Blanchard was not in sympathy 
with the provisions of the state constitution adopted 
in 1783. His frequent election to office by his towns- 
men is certain proof that he was not a tory. 

He removed in 1785 from Peterborough to Truro, 
Nova Scotia, where he was successful in business and 
a colonel of the militia. He died March 18, 1807. He 
married in Middleton, Mass., November 10, 1766, Eliza- 
beth Tread well, born 1738 or 1739, died January 5, 
1811, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Cotton) Treadwell 
of Portsmouth. The officiating minister was Rev. Elias 
Smith, a brother-in-law of the groom. Four children 
were born in Portsmouth and five in Peterborough. 

i. John, baptized Portsmouth, March 22, 1767. When the fam- 
ily removed from Peterborough, the children, John, Jona- 
than and Rebecca were left at Peterborough, probably 
with Samuel Treadwell, a brother of Mrs. Blanchard. 
About 1790, John removed from the state and a sub- 
sequent record has not been found. 

ii. Sarah, baptized at Portsmouth, November 6, 1768; married 
at Truro, Jacob Lippincott, a tanner of Truro. 

iii. Elizabeth, baptized at Portsmouth July 29, 1770; married 
at Truro, Nathaniel Symonds. They settled at Antigonish, 
N. S., where she died September 25, 1808. 

iv. Rebecca, baptized at Portsmouth March 1, 1772; married 
Shepard. She did not remove to Nova Scotia. 

v. Hannah, born at Peterborough, 1774; married at Truro, 
1799, David Archibald, born in Londonderry, N. H., Sep- 
tember 27, 1758, son of David and Elizabeth (Elliot) 
Archibald. He was a shipbuilder, living at Truro and at 
St. Mary's river. He died 1823; she died 1830. 

vi. Jonathan, born at Peterborough, April 21, 1776. He lived 
in Peterborough and vicinity until 1801, when he removed 
to Truro, removing to Pictou in 1817. He married in 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 13 

Deering, N. H., December 2, 1798, Sarah Coggin. She 
died in Pictou, September 25, 1836. Jonathan Blanchard 
married, second, November 2, 1837, Martha Archibald, 
daughter of David and Esther (Cox) Archibald. He died 
May 31, 1843, aged 67 years. 

vii. Edward Sherburne, born at Peterborough, 1778; married at 
Truro, February 18, 1802, Jane Archibald, daughter of 
Matthew and Jennet (Fisher) Archibald. He was an inn- 
holder, a justice of the peace and commissioner of schools. 
He died December 24, 1856. His widow died February 
9, 1873. 

viii. Nancy, born at Peterborough, 1780; married September 2, 
1802, Rev. John Waddell, born in Scotland, April 10, 1771. 
He was a preacher many years in Colchester County, N. S., 
where he died November 13, 1842. She died August 18, 
1818. 

ix. Jotham, born at Peterborough, 1784. He was an infant when 
the family removed from Peterborough to Pictou. He 
was a lawyer and a member of the Parliament of Nova 
Scotia. He married Widow Margaret Spear, whom he 
met while traveling in Scotland. He died in Pictou in 1839. 

Augustus Blanchard, born July 29, 1746, son of Col. 
Joseph. He was a captain of the six weeks men sent 
to reinforce the army at Boston, in December, 1775, 
and in 1776, was commissioned captain in the forces 
sent to Canada. He lived in Merrimack, Amherst and 
Milford, and was a valued townsman. He married 
Bridget Lovewell, daughter of Col. Zacchens Love- 
well. See Lovewell family. They had thirteen children. 

i. Sarah, born at Dunstable, January 3, 1766; married October 
9, 1781, John Stearns, born April 25, 1755, son of John 
and Rachel (Codman) Stearns of Amherst. They re- 
moved to Vermont. 

ii. Priscilla, born at Merrimack, August 12, 1768; married 
John Crosby, born, Milford, April 10, 1768, son of Capt. 
Josiah and Sarah (Fitch) Crosby. Removed to Maine, 
engaging in manufacture of lime. He was drowned in 
Belgrade, Maine, September 20, 1805. Six children. She 
married, second, Solomon Hallett. She died 1847. 

iii. Augustus, born January 18, 1770; married January 31, 1793, 
Esther Crosby, born in Milford, February 3, 1771, daughter 
of Capt. Josiah and Sarah (Fitch) Crosby. He was a 
clothier in Hopkinton and Sandwich, New Hampshire. 
He died October 11, 1829. She died January 20, 1849. 
Seven children. 

iv. Hannah, born February 27, 1772; married Joel Crosby, born 
in Lexington, February 9, 1763, son of Samson and Lucy 
(Richardson) Crosby of Lexington and Amherst. He 
was a soldier in the Revolution with a good record. He 
died in Leominster, Mass., October 20, 1833. She died 
February 19, 1846. 



14 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

v. Esther, born May 4, 1774; married January 26, 1796, Roger 
Eliot Perkins, born in Middleton, Massachusetts, July 
11, 1769, son of Timothy and Hannah (Trowbridge) Per- 
kins. They lived in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He 
owned liberal measures of land and was a useful towns- 
man. He died April 14, 1825. His wife, Esther, died 
December 8, 1824. They had eight children and are the 
grandparents of George Hamilton Perkins, Commodore 
United States Navy. 

vi. Bridget, born June 23, 1776; married September 23, 1806, 
Timothy Danforth, born April 2, 1778, son of David and 
Elizabeth Danforth of Amherst. His second marriage. 
They lived in Amherst, where she died July 16, 1837. 
Three children. 

vii. Rebecca, born November 18, 1778; married July, 1798, 
Josiah French, born in Dracut, January 18, 1772, son of 
Benjamin and Bathsheba (Hill) French of Dracut and 
Milford. He was a tanner of Milford. He died January 
13, 1850; she died March 29, 1850. Twelve children, 
children. 

viii. James, born February 25, 1781; died March 18, 1798. 

ix. George, born August 16, 1783; married Phebe (Lovejoy) 
Connor. He died 1831. 

x. Jonathan, born November 22, 1785; died September 29, 
1788. 

xi. Porter, born August, 16, 1788; married November 4, 1810, 
Anne Stickney Souther, born, Concord, New Hampshire, 
February 19, 1791, daughter of John and Mary (Stickney) 
Souther and granddaughter of Col. Thomas and Anna 
(Osgood) Stickney of Concord. He was a cabinetmaker 
of Concord. Later he originated and manufactured the 
"Blanchard churn" of a liberal celebrity. He died May 
25, 1871. Miss Grace Blanchard, librarian of Concord 
public library is a granddaughter. 

xii. Jonathan, born April 9, 1793; no record secured. 

xiii. Catherine, born July 18, 1796; married 1830, Rufus Taylor. 
Lived in Damariscotta, Maine. 

1. Andrew Cooke came to Dunstable about 1680. He 
owned land and built a house near the Lovewell home- 
stead. He was chosen a fence viewer in 1683 and 
during the ensuing ten years he is frequently mentioned 
in the records. He married Phebe Lovewell, a daughter 
of John Lovewell, senior, and an aunt of Capt. John 
Lovewell. The record of their marriage is in Chelms- 
ford. "Andrew Cooke married July 24, 1685, Phebe, 
daughter of John Loven both of Dunstable." About 
1603, and during King William's War, he removed 
with Joseph Lovewell to the part of Watertown now 
Weston, Mass. His wife, Phebe, was admitted to the 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 15 

church of Weston, November 3, 1717. He died in 
Weston, February 1, 1717-8. 

Children of Andrew and Phebe (Lovewell) Cooke: 

i. Lydia, born in Dunstable, July 26, 1686. 

ii. Andrew, born in Dunstable, November 10, 1687. 

iii Elizabeth, born in Dunstable, March 18, 1689; married 
October 17, 1705, John Wadkins. 

iv. Alice, born in Dunstable, October 7, 1690; married May 24, 
1723, Theophilus Phillips, born June 24, 1688, son of 
Theophilus and Mary (Bennett) Phillips; removed to 
Hopkinton, Mass. 

v. Phebe, born about 1794; married February 16, 1717-8, 
Nathaniel Morse, son of Dea. John and Abigail (Stearns) 
Morse. Both owned the covenant in the church of 
Weston in July, 1719. They had three or more children. 
He died March 10, 1729-30. 

vi Joseph, born about 1698. 

vii. John, a minor 1718. 

viii. Thomas, a minor 1718. 

Andrew Cooke, son of Andrew and Phebe (Lovewell) 
Cooke, was born in Dunstable, November 10, 1687. He 
was a farmer of Weston, where he died 1721. He mar- 
ried in Weston, April 24, 1712. Martha Beale, perhaps 
his cousin and a daughter of William Beale, see. She 
died February 4, 1717-8. He married, second, Mary 
Phillips, born in Watertown, November 15, 1685, daugh- 
ter of Theophilus and Mary (Bennett) Phillips. One 
child bv first and one by second marriage. Joseph 
Lovewell, Jr., was appointed guardian of the daughter, 
Thankful. 

i. Thankful, baptized in Weston, August 8, 1714. 
ii. Mary, born April 6, 1721. 

Joseph Cooke, son of Andrew and Phebe (Lovewell) 
Cooke, was very probably born in Watertown, now 
Weston, about 1698. He married November 10, 1726, 
Mind well Hyde, born April 5, 1703, daughter of Eleazer 
and Hannah (Hyde) Hyde of Newton, Mass. He lived 
in Newton, and there died January 11, 1749. His widow 
died February 13, 1786. 

i. Joseph, born August 26, 1729; died August 4, 1730. 

ii. Josiah, born September 9, 1731 ; married April 26, 1753, 
Mary Oldham. 



16 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

iii. Hannah, born March S, 1733. died December 31, 1748. 

iv. Oliver, born June 1, 1735, married January 20, 1757, Huldah 
Knapp. 

v. Solomon, born July 16, 1738. 

vi. Thomas, born May 17, 1740. 

1. John CROMWELL. Of this pioneer of the "Merrimack- 
Valley in New Hampshire, there are many conflicting 
statements and much has been written of him. which 
is not supported by the records of his time. Omitting 
the fanciful coloring of tradition and the stories of 
buried treasure, the record of John Cromwell is a simple 
narrative of a man of adventure and courage, living 
without the support of community and braving the dan- 
ger of an exposed frontier. He removed before 1656, 
from Charlestown, where he had lived several years. 
to the west bank of the Merrimack river in the present 
town of Merrimack. Here he built a house and estab- 
lished trade with the Indians, receiving furs in exchange 
for blankets and rum. The location of his house is 
established by contemporaneous records. In 1656, the 
General Court of Massachusetts made a grant of 8000 
acres to the town of P.illerica. which was located on both 
sides of the Merrimack river. On the original map or 
plan of this grant, made by Tonathan Danforth in 1656, 
"Cromwell house" is located on the west bank of the 
Merrimack river at a point south of Thornton's Ferry. 
Sec N. II. State Papers. Vol. XXIV.. page 166. Trie 
grant was sold by John Parker, agent for Pillerica. to 
William Brenton and subsequently was known as Bren- 
ton Farm. In the convevance to Mr. Brenton "the 
trucking house now inhabited bv John Cromwell" is 
noted. Sec Suffolk Registry. Liber ITT., pacfe 186. 
The record cited is proof that Cromwell in 1656 had 
built a house within the limits of Brenton Farm. Hav- 
ing no title to the premises, he was a squatter there. 
The statement that he was driven away by the Indians 
in a time of peace is tradition and it is more probable 
that William Brenton was the compulsive influence 
which urecd his removal. In the autumn of 1650, or 
early in 1660. he purchased of Dea. Fdward Johnson 
of Woburn, a grant of 300 acres situated in the part 
of Dunstable now Tvngshorough. Here he built a 
mansion house and made substantial improvements 
upon the land. He died in 1661. The appraisal of his 
estate is dated November 28, 1661, and was returned by 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 17 

John Parker, Jacob Parker and William Fletcher. The 
inventory includes a farm of three hundred acres, a 
mansion house and out buildings, clothing, furniture, 
farming implements, twenty cattle and horses, twelve 
swine, a quantity of furs and goods for trade with the 
Indians. The total value is £608 2s 8d. The widow, 
Seaborne Cromwell, conveyed the land and buildings 
to John Hull of Boston, January 22, 1662-3. Mr. Hull 
sold the premises to Lieut. Joseph Wheeler, January 
29, 1676-7. At this house the proprietors held their 
first meetings in Dunstable. To amend some defect in 
the title in 1702, John Cromwell of Andover and Benja- 
min Cromwell of Woodbridge, East Jersey, sons of John 
Cromwell, late of the trading house, merchant, and 
Robert Cumbey of Boston and Rebecca, his wife, 
daughter of said John Cromwell give a quitclaim to 
Peter Bulkclcy, Esq., of Concord. Later Col. Ebenezer 
Bancroft owned and occupied a part of the premises 
many years. 

John Cromwell married Seaborn Bachelder, who was 
baptized in Charlestown, March 12, 1634-5, a daughter 
of William and Jane (Cowper) Bachelder. He' died 
1661. She married, second, May 22, 1663, Robert 
Parris. sec. In 1670, one son was deceased and two 
sons and a daughter were living in Charlestown, in the 
home of their grandfather, William Bachelder. 

i. John, probably not married; he was killed by accident in 
Andover, Mass., September 20, 1708. "Simply and un- 
advisedly acting the Gesture of ye Indian Enemy was 
shot to death in the woods supposing him to be one of 
our enemys." 

ii. Benjamin, lived in Woodbridge, New Jersey. He married 
in Charlestown, March 5, 1702-3, Mary Patten of Woburn. 
iii. Joseph, died young. 

iv. Rebecca married Robert Cumbey, born in Boston, February 
14, 1654, son of Humphrey and Sarah Cumbey. They 
lived in Boston, where four children were born. 

John Darbyshire came to Dunstable about 1695. He 
could not write and the clerks transcribed his name 
in many forms, of which Darbyshire, Derbyshire and 
Darbyshear are the more common. In one instance 
the name is written Derby. It is said that his descend- 
ants abbreviated the name and arc mingled with the 
more numerous family of Derby. He married Mary 
Blanchard, daughter of Dea. John Blanchard. See 



18 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Blanchard family. He removed, about 1704, from Dun- 
stable to Groton, where he resided several years. He 
died before 1725. June 5, 1725, county records, Septem- 
ber 14, 1725, church records, Nathaniel Woods of 
Groton married Widow Mary Darbyshire. He was a 
son of Samuel and Alice (Rushton) Woods and she 
was his fourth wife. Both died at Groton. Four chil- 
dren of John and Mary (Blanchard) Darbyshire: 

i. William, born Dunstable, August 14, 1698. 

ii. James, born Dunstable, April 30, 1702. 

iii. Mary, born Groton, January 3, 1705-6. 

iv. Oliver, born Groton, December 8, 1708. 

1. Samuel French, son of Lieut. William and Elizabeth 
French of Cambridge and Billerica, was born in Bil- 
lerica about 1660. In several printed records the date 
of his birth is December 3, 1645. The son, Samuel, 
born on that date, died in Cambridge, July 15, 1646. 
The date of the birth of the second Samuel is not of 
record. He removed to Dunstable about 1680, and 
married in Chelmsford, December 28, 1682, Sarah Cum- 
mings, born January 28, 1661. daughter of John and 
Sarah (Howlet) Cummings. He lived east of Nutting 
Hill. He was one of the foundation members of the 
church, a selectman and an honored citizen. He died 
November 17, 1757. Eight children. 

i. Sarah, born February 7, 1683-4. 

ii. Samuel, born September 10, 1685; if he was married, a 
record has not been found. He died November 4, 1727. 

2. iii. Joseph, born March 10, 1687-8. 

3. iv. John, born May 6, 1691. 

v. Ebenezer, born April 7, 1693; he was killed by the Indians, 
September 5, 1724. His wife was Esther. Their son, 
Ebenezer, was born in Dunstable, October 27, 1723. 

vi. Richard, born April 8, 1695. 

vii. Alice, born November 20. 1699; married after 1719, Nathan- 
iel Woods, born in Groton, October _ 19, 1694, son of 
Nathaniel Woods. He was a sergeant in Lovewelfs third 
expedition and on the day of the battle was in command 
of the fort. They lived in Groton. 

viii. Jonathan, born February 1, 1703-4. He married Jane — . 

He died November 17, 1757. In his will there is no 
mention of children. He left his property to Oliver 
Woods, a son of his sister Alice. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 19 

2. Joseph French, son of Samuel, born March 10, 1687-8; 

married Elizabeth Cummings, born January 5, 1687-8, 
a daughter of John, Jr., and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Cum- 
mings. He was a captain and a selectman. His wife, 
Elizabeth, died April 30, 1751. Eight children. 

4. i. Joseph, born July 28, 1713. 

ii. Elizabeth, born 1715; married 1736, Capt. John Cummings, 
born January 14, 1698, son of Nathaniel and Abigail 
(Parkhurst) Cummings. Lived in Dunstable. He died 
August 15, 1770. She died July 2, 1793. Eight children. 

iii. Samson, born July 28, 1717; he removed to Southwick, Mass. 

He was twice married and had sons, Samson, Jonathan, 

David, Aaron and Daniel. 
iv. Josiah, born February 24, 1722-3. 
v. Thomas, born June 29, 1724. 

5. vi. Benjamin, born July 6, 1726. 
vii. Samuel, born July 14, 1728. 
viii. Samuel, born August 10, 1730. 

3. John French, son of Samuel, born May 6, 1691. He 

bought land of his father, 1714, of Henry Farwell, 1721, 
and a part of the Brattle farm, 1732. He was a farmer 
and a wheelwright. He lived in the part of original 
Dunstable now Dunstable, Mass. 

i. John, born March 1, 1719. 

ii. William, born October 18, 1721. 

iii. Hannah, born January 24, 1723-4. 

iv. Eleazer, born October 12, 1726. 

v. Elizabeth, born April 29, 1729. 

vi. Ebenezer, born May 31, 1731. 

vii. Sarah, born October 6, 1733. 

4. Joseph French, son of Joseph, born July 28, 1713. He 

was prominent in civil and military affairs, a town 
officer and colonel in the militia. His first wife, Bridget, 
died October 29. 1735, his second wife, Elizabeth, died 
January 20, 1753, and his third wife, Rebecca, died 
March 21, 1776. Eight children. 

i. Isaac, born May 26, 1734; died August 4, 1753. 

6. ii. Joseph born November 1, 1739. 

iii. Josiah, born June 27, 1741 ; died young. 

iv. Josiah, born June 17, 1743. ..-. 



20 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

v. Thomas, born May 4, 1745. 
vi. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1746-7. 
vii. Bridget, born August 30, 1749. 
viii. Mollie, twin, born August 30, 1749. 
ix. Susannah, born October 16, 1757. 
7. x. Theodore, born June 6, 1759. 

5. Benjamin French, son of Joseph, born July 6, 1726. He 
was a town officer, representative and a captain. He 
married January 8, 1751, Molly Love well, born May 
26, 1732, daughter of Col. Zaccheus Lovewell, see. 
She died December 17, 1774. He married, second, Feb- 
ruary 1, 1776, Mary Cummings, widow of Jeremiah 
Cummings. He died December 15, 1779. 

i. Benjamin, born December 4, 1752; died October 29, 1776. 

ii. Esther, born January 7, 1754; married Dr. Allin Toothaker, 
second, Timothy Taylor, Esq. See Taylor family. 

iii. Mollie, born October 18, 1756. 

iv. Katherine, born August 19, 1758. 

v. Augustus, born June 16, 1760. 

vi. Betsey, born January 16, 1762. 

vii. Charlotte, born September 21, 1763; married July 12, 1779. 
James Cummings, born, Dunstable, July 12, 1757, son of 
Oliver and Sybel (Bailey) Cummings. Lived in Dunstable. 
He died September 6, 1840; she died September 27, 1787. 
Four children. 

viii. Frederick, born September 26, 1766; he was one of the fore- 
most citizens of Dunstable many years. Representative, 
1793, 1795, 1797, 1803, 1805 and 1806. He was appointed 
a justice of the peace, February 15, 1791, and his com- 
missions were renewed until his death. About 1810 he 
was appointed clerk of the court of Hillsborough county, 
and removed to Amherst. He died March 28, 1824. He 
married December 30, 1790, Grace Blanchard, daughter 
of Gen. Jonathan Blanchard, see. She died in Lowell, 
February 6, 1845. They had five children. Among these 
was Benjamin Franklin French, born in Dunstable, 
October 2, 1791, Dartmouth College, 1812. He was an 
able lawyer of Nashua, and subsequently the masterly 
agent of the Jackson Corporation. He died in Lowell, 
May 16, 1853. 

ix. Thomas, born August 7, 1768; he was an active and able 
man, a town officer and representative. He married 
January 7, 1796, Elizabeth Blanchard, daughter of Gen. 
Jonathan Blanchard, see. He died May 3, 1846; she 
died May 4, 1843. 

x. Lucy, born November 7, 1769. 

xi. Bridget, born January 14, 1772. 



TJiirty Dunstable Families. 21 

6. Joseph French, son of Joseph, born November 1, 1739, 

He was a man of ability and a prominent citizen of 
Dunstable. He married March 3, 1768, Sybel Richard- 
son, born in Chelmsford, May 19, 1744, daughter of 
John and Esther Richardson. Four children. 

i. Elizabeth, born October 7, 1769. 

ii. Isaac, born March 28, 1771. 

iii. Sybel, born December 12, 1773. 

iv. Mary, born June 4, 1776. 

7. Theodore French, son of Joseph, born June 6, 1759. 

Lived in Dunstable. He was a representative 1801 and 
1804. He married October 4, 1781, Rhoda Danforth, 
born in Dunstable, April 22, 1769, daughter of Lieut. 
J'osiah and Mary (Richardson) Danforth. She died 
May 20, 1790. He married, second, February 3, 1791, 
Caty (Honey) Lovewell, born in Dunstable, March 2, 
1759, daughter of John Honey and widow of Jonathan 
Lovewell, Jr., see. Five children of the first and three 
of the second wife. 

i. Rhoda, born July 9, 1782. 

ii. Joseph, born November 22, 1783. 

iii. Rebecca, born June 4, 1785. 

iv. Theodore, born December 19, 1786; lived in Concord. He 
was agent for the Boston and Concord Boating Company 
and the first freight agent of the Concord railroad. 

v. Jacob, born October 24, 17S9; died April IS, 1790. 

vi. Katey, born September 1, 1792. 

vii. John L., born June 5, 1795. 

viii. John R, born January 21, 1798. 

1. Daniel Galusha, the ancestor of a numerous family 
in Massachusetts and Vermont, was a soldier in King 
Philip's War. In the summer of 1676, he was one of the 
men posted at the garrison in Springfield. In this war 
many of the soldiers assigned their pay to the towns 
from which they enlisted. Daniel Galusha assigned 
his pay to the town of Reading. It is not known when 
he came to America or where he had lived previous to 
his service in the war. When discharged at Spring- 
field, he repaired to Chelmsford and there married 
October 10, 1676, Hannah Goold, born July 18, 1655, 
daughter of Francis and Rose Goold of Chelmsford 
and a sister of Samuel and John Goold of Dunstable. 



22 Tliirty Dunstable Families. 

He lived in Chelmsford about twenty years and there 
seven children were born. There is no record of his 
death in Chelmsford but the record of birth of the 
youngest child is in these words : Richard, son of 
Widow Galusha, was born December 4, 1696. 

The family removed from Chelmsford to Dunstable 
soon after 1696, and lived near Salmon brook. In Queen 
Anne's War the house of the Galusha family was one 
of the fortified garrisons. The Indians made an attack 
upon the house July 3, 1706. The house was burned, 
and the daughter, Rachel, was slain. Both Penhallow 
and Pike, who were contemporaneous writers make 
mention of the event. In the journal of Rev. John Pike, 
the story is briefly told. "Near about the same time, 
or soon after, they assalted another house belonging 
to one Jacob Guletia, a Dutchman. The house was 
burnt, some persons were killed and some escaped." 

Penhallow in "Narrative of the Indian Wars" written 
at the time and printed in 1726, says: "After that a 
small party attacked Daniel Galeutia's house, who held 
them play for some time, till the old man's courage 
failed ; when on surrendering himself, he informed them 
of the state of the garrison, how that one man was 
killed and only two men and a boy left, which caused 
them to rally anew, and with greater courage than be- 
fore. Upon which one with the boy got out on the back 
side, leaving only Jacob to fight the battle, who for some 
time defended himself with much bravery; but over- 
powered with force, and finding none to assist him, 
was obliged to quit and make his escape as well as he 
could ; but before he got far, the enemy laid hold of him 
once and again, and yet with much struggling he es- 
caped himself. Upon this they burnt the house." 

In this narrative Penhallow mentions Daniel Galusha 
calling him an old man in specific terms that challenges 
the accuracy of the Chelmsford records, which men- 
tions widow Galusha in 1696. That Daniel Galusha, 
the father, was living in 1706 is confirmed by the testi- 
mony of one of his sons. In 1712, Daniel Galusha, born 
in 1686, petitioned the General Court concerning a gun, 
the value of which had been deducted from his wages 
on the pay roll in 1706. He recites: "About six years 
past, when the Indians attacked and took the house of 
Daniel Galusha. his father, in Dunstable, he being 
posted there under her Majesty's pay, and serving there 
with his own arms, while running nastily to take his 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 23 

own gun, by mistake he took one of the public arms, and 
the enemy pressing sore upon him, he was forced to 
make his escape, the house being burned by the enemy, 
with his gun and others therein." The date of the death 
of Daniel Galusha, the father, is not known. It was 
before 1713, when widow Hannah Galusha removed 
from Brookline to the home of her son in Weston. 
It will be observed that Pike calls Mr. Galusha a Dutch- 
man, and in the Court Records of Massachusetts he 
is so designated. It is a tradition among his descend- 
ants that he was a native of Wales. After the destruc- 
tion of their home in Dunstable, the widow, Hannah, 
lived a short time in Brookline, removing to the home 
of her son, Daniel, in 1714. There were seven children 
of Daniel and Hannah (Goold) Galusha, born m 
Chelmsford. 

i. Hannah, born September 10, 1677. 

ii Jacob born April 22, 1680. He was a soldier in Queen Anne's 
War and the brave defender of the Galusha garrison in 
1706 It is possible that he was the ancestor of the many 
families of the name in Rehoboth, Norton, Lynn and 
Danvers. 

iii Rachel, born July 18, 1683, was killed by the Indians July 
3, 1706. 

2. iv. Daniel, born March 31, 1686. 

3. v. Nathaniel, born December 22, 1691. 
vi. Dinah, born January 14, 1695. 

vii. Richard, born December 4, 1696. 

2 Daniel Galusha, son of Daniel, born in Chelmsford, 
March 31, 1686. He was a soldier in 1702 and 1706, 
and probably other dates during Queen Anne's War. 
Soon after the destruction of his home in Dunstable, 
he removed to the west precinct of Watertown, now 
Weston. He was a carpenter and a farmer and the 
owner of considerable land in Weston. In 1716 he 
removed to Colchester, Connecticut, and was there ad- 
mitted an inhabitant, December 22, 1718. He married 
in Watertown, July 5, 1710, Sarah Warren, a daughter 
of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Warren of Water- 
town. Five children. 

i. Daniel, born in Weston, May 9, 1711 ; died young, 
ii. Dinah, born in Weston, April, 1713. 
iii. Daniel, born in Weston, April 26, 1716. 



24 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

iv. Elizabeth, born in Colchester, October 3, 1719. 
4. v. Jacob, born in Colchester, about 1721. 

3. Nathaniel Galusha, son of Daniel, born in Chelmsford, 
December 22, 1691. His wife was Anna. He was of 
Sudbury, 1714-1716, and subsequently he lived a few 
years in Rutland, Mass. No later record is found. It 
is probable he was the ancestor of the families of 
Galusha in Williamstown, West Stockbridge and south- 
ern Vermont. The record of birth of three children is 
given. 

i. Jacob, born Sudbury, May 7, 1715. 

ii. Nathaniel, born Rutland, December 16, 1719. 

iii. Rachel, born Rutland, December 27, 1720. 

4. Jacob Galusha, son of Daniel, was born in Colchester, 
Conn., about 1721. He lived in Norwich, Conn., until 
1/69, when he removed to Salisbury, Conn. From Sal- 
isbury, he removed to Shaftsbury, Vermont, in 1775 or 
1776. The record of his time affords frequent evidence 
of his fortitude and ability. Several of his sons were 
officers in the Revolution and the name enlivens the 
annals of Vermont. He married in Norwich, Septem- 
ber 10, 1745, Lydia Huntington, a daughter of Matthew 
and Lydia (Leonard) Huntington. She died in Nor- 
wich May 6, 1764. He married, second, September 9, 

9, 1764, Thankful . He married, third, Desire 

Andrus) Metcalf. who died in Salisbury, September 28 
l?- 75 ' ^ married > fourth, Abigail Porter of Norwich.' 
Nine children by first, one by second, and six by third 
wife. J 

i. Mary, born November 10, 1746. 

ii- David, born October 30, 1748; married January 31, 1773, 
Chanty Luther She died April 15, 1777. He married 
second, November 21, 1779, Rhoda — . 

iii. Jacob born December 28, 1750; married February 13, 1765, 

5f r fe la ,- Var i He hved in Shaftsbury. He died July 
ii>, 18J4; his widow died August 13, 1846. 

iv. Jonas, born February 4 1753. He lived in Shaftsbury and 
was constantly employed in public affairs. He was a 
sheriff, councillor, judge of the county court, presidential 

\S\ll i a i«i/ 0V u n0r °^ Y ermont 1809 to 181 9- except 
18 " and 1814. He married Mary Chittenden, a daughter 

dedAorTl S! ,a i7?S d E ' ,2abeth .(Meigs) Chittenden. She 
died April 20 1794. He married, second, Martha Sam- 
mons, who died November 10, 1797; he married, third, 



Thirty Dims table Families. 25 

June 30, 1808, Abigail Ward, who died May 6, 1809; he 
married, fourth, Abigail (Atwater) Beach, who died 
July 30, 1831. He died September 25, 1834. 

v. Amos, born April 1, 1755, died in Shaftsbury, October 16, 
1839. His wife, Mary, died July 3, 1819. 

vi. Elijah, born October 23, 1757; married Beulah Chittenden, 
a daughter of Gov. Thomas and Elizabeth (Meigs) Chit- 
tenden. He died a few years later. His widow married, 
second, Col. Matthew Lyon, a native of Ireland, who lived 
several years in Fairhaven, Vermont, and later in Ken- 
tucky and Arkansas. He was a member of Congress from 
Vermont and Kentucky, and a delegate from the territory 
of Arkansas. He died August 1, 1822. His widow died 
1824, near Little Rock, Arkansas. The story of his career 
is one of romantic incident and of unusual interest. His 
sons were able and brilliant men. 

vii. Olive, born December 4, 1759. 

viii. Lydia, born June 1, 1762; married in Salisbury, October 19, 
1786, Asa Hutchinson. 

ix. Anna, born May 6, 1764; married in Salisbury, Ebenezer 
Wright, born April 10, 1765, son of Amaziah and Zerviah 
(Fitch) Wright of Mansfield, Conn. 

x. Lucy, born May 5, 1765. 

xi. Daniel. 

xii. Benjamin. 

xiii. Ezra. 

xiv. Desire, born, Salisbury, December 31, 1771. 

xv. Sarah, born, Salisbury, June 30, 1774. 

xvi. Elias, born, Salisbury, September 9, 1775. Susannah, daughter 
of Elias and Susannah Galusha, was born in Salisbury, 
October 25, 1797. 

Gould. Francis and Rose Goold, immigrant ancestors 
of one branch of the Gould families of Massachusetts lived 
in Duxbury, Braintree and Chelmsford. In early records the 
name appears as Gold, Goold and Gould. Of the twelve chil- 
dren of Francis and Rose Gould, two sons, Samuel and John, 
and a daughter, Hannah, the wife of Daniel Galusha, have 
lived in Dunstable. 

1. Samuel Gould, son of Francis and Rose, was born in 
Braintree, August 12, 1658. He came from Chelmsford 
to Dunstable, 1680. He married at Chelmsford, March 
17, 1684, Mehitable Barrett, born April 12, 1665, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Frances ( Woolderson) Barrett. She 
was a sister of the wife of John Swallow. He was 
chosen "dog whipper for the meeting house" May 21, 



26 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

1688, and his name is found in the records from time to 
time about twenty years. He returned to Chelmsford, 
probably soon after 1700, and there died October 27, 
1747. His wife died October 3, 1733. The record of 
birth of the daughter, Margaret, is at Dunstable. The 
record of birth of the younger children is at Chelmsford. 
In addition to the eight children named, it is believed 
by many that there was a son, Joseph, born perhaps in 
1697. 

i. Margaret, born May 26, 1687; married March 30, 1709-10, 
John Chamberlain, Jr., of Billerica. 

ii. Anna, born September 12, 1689. 

2. iii. Samuel, born November 10, 1691. 

iv. John, born January 24, 1693. 

v. Jemima, born June 30, 1696. 

vi. Moses, born March 6, 1699. 

vii. Isaac, twin, born March 6, 1699. 

2. Samuel Gould, son of Samuel, born in Dunstable, 

November 10, 1691 ; married in Wenham, July 28, 1720, 
Mary Batchelder, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Batch- 
elder. He settled in Dunstable previous to his marriage. 
He bought of Col. Jonathan Tyng, one hundred acres of 
land. This farm with later additions was partly in 
Hudson and Pelham, but mainly in the part of Dun- 
stable now Tyngsborough. He is styled Capt. Samuel 
Gould in the records. His wife died November 26, 1761. 
He died January 13, 1769. His will was proved Jan- 
uary 31, 1775. 

i. Joseph, born August 19, 1720; married June 19, 1746, Mary 
Piper. He lived in Hudson. 

ii. Samuel, born January 2, 1723; married January 10, 1750-1, 
Elizabeth Marble. He died in Tyngsborough, April 2, 1769. 

iii. Mary, born January 24, 1727; married Solomon Pollard. 

iv. Mark, born March 17, 1729; married Abigail Wyman. 

v. Silas, born September 16, 1733 ; died January 9, 1756. 

3. John Gould, son of Francis and Rose Gould, was born 

in Chelmsford, August 21, 1660. He came to Dunstable 
with his brother, Samuel, in 1680. He married July 2, 
1686, Elizabeth Cummings. He died at Dunstable, 
April 16, 1689. One child. 

i. Elizabeth, born May 8, 1687. 



Thirty Dims table Families. 27 

William Harwood, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Har- 
wood, was born in Boston, March 28, 1665. In his in- 
fancy the family removed to Concord, where Nathaniel, 
the father, died February 7, 1715-6. William, the son, 
married at Concord, May 11, 1692, Esther Perry, born 
August 11, 1674, daughter of Obadiah and Esther (Has- 
sell) Perry, see. About 1700, they removed to Dun- 
stable. He was a worthy man and a valued citizen. He 
was elected to office on many occasions. He died Sep- 
tember 17, 1740. Esther, his wife, died October 8, 1747. 
Gravestones. Three children were born at Concord, 
and seven at Dunstable. 



i. Elizabeth, born July 1694. 

ii. Esther, born January 10, 1696-7 ; married in Concord, August 
26, 1724, Joseph Baker of Marlboro. 

iii. John, born May 28, 1699. He was a soldier in Lovewell's 
third expedition and was killed at Pigwacket, May 8, 1725. 

iv. Thomas, born January 9, 1702. He was a prominent citizen. 

v. Sarah, born June 26, 1706; married Dea. William Cummings, 
son of John and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Cummings. He 
marched in the third expedition under Capt. John Love- 
well; was sent home on account of wounds previously 
received. He lived in Hudson, where he died August 29, 
1757. She died in 1769. They had seven children. 

vi. Mary, born March 25, 1709; married Thomas Pollard of 
Dunstable. He was a son of Thomas and Sarah (Farmer) 
Pollard of Billerica. 

vii. Abigail, born April 9, 1710. 

viii. Rachel, born July 21, 1712. 

ix. Dorcas, born March 6, 1717; died December 11, 1723. 

x. Lydia, born October 5, 1722. 

1. James Harwood, son of James and Lydia (Barrett) 
Harwood of Chelmsford and grandson of Andrew and 
Elizabeth Harwood of Boston, was born in Chelmsford, 
September 30, 1695. He lived in Littleton, Concord, 
and Groton, removing to Dunstable soon after 1740. In 
the controversy over the settlement of Rev. Samuel 
Bird, a new light, in 1747, he joined with the Blanchard 
party in opposing, and against the Lovewell party, who 
were supporters of Mr. Bird. His wife was Lydia. 
There is no record of his death and I find no mention 
of his name after 1754, but his son James wrote his 
name James Harwood, Junior, as late as 1762. 



28 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Andrew, born at Littleton, July 5, 1722. 
Eunice, born at Littleton, March 21, 1724. 
Mary, born at Littleton, June 6, 1726. 
James, born 1737. 

James Harwood, son of James and Lydia Harwood was 
born at Groton or Concord 1737. His parents removed 
in his infancy to Dunstable. In the French and Indian 
War he served in Capt. James Todd's company of Col. 
Peter Gilman's regiment at Albany, New York, in 1755; 
in the famous company of rangers under Capt. James 
Rogers in 1756; in Capt. Nehemiah Lovewell's company 
of Col. John Goffe's regiment at Crown Point in 1760. 
In the Revolution he served in Capt. William Walker's 
company of Col. James Reed's regiment at Bunker Hill 
and siege of Boston, 1775 ; in Capt. Daniel Wilkin's com- 
pany of Col. Timothy Bedel's regiment in Canada, 1776, 
and in April, 1777, he enlisted into the Continental ser- 
vice for three years. He was assigned to Capt. 
Amos Emerson's company of Col. Joseph Cilley's regi- 
ment. In descriptive list he was 40 years of age, six 
feet, complexion, hair and eyes, dark. He died of 
disease, December 1, 1777. He married Marv Clogston, 
daughter of John and Miranda (Glasford) Clogston of 
Boston and Dunstable. She married, second, at Dun- 
stable, November 9, 1785, Isaac Foot. 

i. John, born 1758. He was a soldier in the Revolution and was 
wounded at Stillwater, 1777. He married January 9, 1787, 
Sarah Martin. He lived in Goffstown and Manchester, 
N. H. He died 1833. From March 1, 1823, he was a 
pensioner. 

ii. James, born 1760. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He 
died in Unity, N. H., 1800. He married in Billerica, 
December 4, 1783, Patty Sanders, born October 28, 1759, 
daughter of David and Abigail (Snow) Sanders. 

iii. Archibald, born 1762. He was a soldier in the Revolution, 
serving in Capt. William Barron's company of Col. Moses 
Nichols' regiment, 1780, and in Capt. John Mills' company 
of Col. Daniel Reynolds' regiment, 1781. Subsequently 
he lived in Springfield, Weathersfield and Eden, Vt. He 
was a carpenter and millwright. He married May 8, 
1786, Susannah House, daughter of Combs and Prudence 
House of Springfield, Vt. He died 1837. His widow died 
1848. Among his many descendants is Watson H. Har- 
wood, M. D., of Chasm Falls, New York, the genealogist 
of the family. 

iv. Roxanna, married John BurhV-ame of Weathersfield, Vt. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 



29 



v. Lydia, married Jonathan Ordway; married, second, Jedediah 
Hutchins. 



Richard Hassell, born 1622, settled in Cambridge, be- 
fore 1643. He was admitted freeman, 1647. He and his 
wife, Joan, were early members of the church of Cam- 
bridge. In the division of Shawshin, now Billerica, by 
Cambridge in 1652, he received lot 69, of 60 acres. He 
removed to Billerica in 1676, and April 12, 1678, he was 
chosen "to inspect the lads on the Sabbath days." He 
removed from Billerica to Dunstable in 1679. He was 
an intelligent man and a worthy citizen. There is no 
record of his death. 

i. Elizabeth, born September 20, 1643 ; married November 1, 
1661, Joseph Wright, born in Woburn about 1639, son 
of Dea. John and Priscilla Wright. He was a deacon 
and a selectman of Woburn. He died March 31, 1724; 
she died June 28, 1713. Eleven children. 

ii. Joseph, born September 20, 1645. 

iii. Esther, born December 6, 1648; married Obadiah Perry; 
married, second, Martin Townsend. See Perry family. 

iv. Alice, born about 1665, married Christopher Temple; mar- 
ried, second, Jacob Kendall. See Temple family. 

Joseph Hassell, son of Richard, was born in Cambridge, 
September 20, 1645. He married August 21, 1667, Anna 
Perry, a daughter of William and Anna Perry of Water- 
town. In his life he was a good townsman and in the 
achievement of his descendants his name is boldly writ- 
ten in the annals of Dunstable. His daughter, Anna, 
was the mother of Capt. John Lovewell, his daughter, 
Abiah, Avas the mother of Col. Joseph Blanchard, and 
his granddaughter, Esther, was the wife of Col. Zaccheus 
Lovewell. Fox confuses this family with that of 
Richard, his father. Joseph Hassell and his wife and 
son, Benjamin, were slain by the Indians, September 
2, 1691. 






* ••• / — 



Anna, born in Watertown, October 6, 1669; married Decem- 
ber 7, 1686, John Lovewell. See Lovewell family. 

Elizabeth, born in Concord, September 11, 1671; died June 
19, 1672. 

Abiah, born in Concord, May 13, 1673; married May 25, 
1696, Capt. Joseph Blanchard. See Blanchard family. 

Joseph, no record of birth. 



... 



30 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

v. Richard was captured by the Indians during Queen Anne's 

War. 

vi. Benjamin was slain by the Indians September 2, 1691. 

3. Joseph Hassell, son of Joseph, was born about 1675. 

He was a soldier, 1702, in the company commanded by- 
Lieut. William Tyng. He lived in Dunstable and the 
name of his wife was Hannah, but there is no record of 
his marriage or death. They had one son and seven 
daughters. 

4. i. Benjamin, born August 9, 1701. 

ii. Hannah, born September 10, 1705. 

iii. Rachel, born March 3, 1707. 

iv. Esther, born July 30, 1709; married Col. Zaccheus Love- 
well, see. 

v. Dinah, born January 6, 1713. 

vi. Abiah, born March 16, 1715. 

vii. Betsey, born August 16, 1718; married November 27, 1740, 
Robert Pomroy. 

viii. Sarah, born August 4, 1721. 

4. Benjamin Hassell, son of Joseph, born in Dunstable, 

August 9, 1701. He was a soldier in the third expedi- 
tion of Capt. John Lovewell, and was present at the 
beginning of the fight at Pigwacket. During the battle 
he left the field and returned to the fort. At the time 
he was censured, and he was the soldier whom Rev. 
Thomas Symmes in his sermon refused to mention by 
name. Subsequently he was a useful and respected cit- 
izen of Merrimack. His daughter, Adah, was the first 
white child born in that town. Two of his sons served 
in the Revolution. He married December 18, 1728, 
Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, see. A 
record of seven children is found. 

i. Adah, born April 27, 1734. 

5. ii. Elias, born June 25, 1740. 

iii. Abel. He served in the Revolution in Capt Jason Ford's 
company of Col. Moses Nichols' regiment at Bennington, 
1777. He married September 22, 1773, Rachel Houstan 
and lived in Merrimack. His children were Amos, Han- 
nah and Rachel, who married James Cash. 

iv. Kezia, born May 7, 1746. 

6. v. Jason, born December 4, 1748. 

vi. Deborah, born December 7, 1751. 
vii. Benjamin, born February 12, 1755. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 31 

5. Elias Hassell, son of Benjamin, born June 25, 1740. He 

settled in Deering. He was a selectman and in 1776 
was one of the signers of the association test. He mar- 
ried December 21, 1792, Mary Morrill and removed to 
Hillsborough. Two children. 

i. Hannah, born October 2, 1793; married Samuel Morrill. 
Lived in Deering. 

ii William, born 1799. He lived in Pepperell, Mass., and in 
New Ipswich, where he died March 3, 18/4. He was a 
deacon of the Congregational church of New Ipswich. 
He married in Pepperell, November 30, 1826, Betsey H. 
Butterfield, born in Pepperell, August 9, 1806, daughter 
of Daniel and Sarah (Shattuck) Butterfield. She died 
September 21, 1868. He married, second, May 3, 1870, 
Rhoda (Butterfield) Powers, a sister of his first wife and 
widow of Nathan Powers of Milford. Three children: 
William E., born 1823, James L., born 1828 and George 
A., born 1842, died 1846. 

iii. Willard, born in Hillsborough, January 8, 1803. He died 
unmarried about 1838. 

6. Jason Hassell, son of Benjamin, born December 4, 1748. 

In the Revolution, he served in Capt. Joseph Moor's 
company of Col. William Prescott's regiment at Bun- 
ker Hill and siege of Boston, 1775. This was a Massa- 
chusetts regiment and his name is written Hassell, Har- 
sell and Haskell. In 1778, he was a corporal in Capt. 
Peter Cross' company of Col. Moses Nichols' regiment 
which marched to Rhode Island. He was a farmer and 
lived in Merrimack, where he died 1799. He married 
December 28, 1779, Elizabeth McClench. Seven 
children. 

i. Elizabeth, born November 6, 1785. 

ii. Sukey, born September 10, 1787. 

iii. Lucy, born September 9, 1789. 

iv. Benjamin, born September 19, 1791. 

v. Luther Ripley, born October 9, 1793. 

vi. Joseph, born July 20, 1795. 

vii. Clarissa, date of birth not on record. 

Honey. This name in early generations was written 
Behoney. The brothers Gideon, Peter and John, who came to 
Dunstable, and their descendants have written the name 
Honey. The daughter, Bridget, in record of her marriage is 
called Bridget Behoney. 



32 TJiirty Dunstable Families. 

1. Peter Behoney, son of Peter and Sarah Behoney was 

born in Watertown, March 13, 1689-90. He married 
in Watertown, January 26, 1712-13, Bridget Beale, prob- 
ably a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lovewell) 
Beale, see. He lived in Watertown, Framingham and 
Marlborough, Mass. He died in Marlborough, Decem- 
ber 13, 1732. The widow and her children removed to 
Dunstable. It is quite possible that all of the children 
are not included in this register. 

i. Bbidget, born about 1714; married in Newbury, Mass., 
October 16, 1734, Jonathan Lovewell, son of John Love- 
well, see. 

2. ii. Gideon, about 1720. 

3. iii. Peter. 

4. iv. John. 

2. Gideon Honey, son of Peter, born about 1720, was a 

minor in 1739. He died in Dunstable, 1757. Adminis- 
tration was granted to his widow, Hannah, June 7, 1757. 

i. Hannah, born September 20, 1746. 

ii. Elizabeth, born September 23, 1749. 

iii. William, born November 7, 1751. 

iv. Bridget, born September 28, 1754. 

v. Thirzah, born 1756; married Thomas Youngman, son of 
Nicholas and Mary (Wright) Youngman of Hollis; 
removed to Washington, Vt. 

3. Peter Honey, son of Peter, lived and probably died in 

Dunstable. He was a soldier in the Revolution with 
a good record. There is no record of his marriage. 
Seven children of Peter and Elizabeth Honey were born 
in Dunstable. 

i. Bridget, born November 7, 1751. 

5. ii. Parmenter, born August 28, 1753. 

iii. Peter, born January 24, 1756. He was a soldier from Dun- 
stable in the Revolution. 

iv. Sarah, born February 4, 1758; married April 10, 1781, William 
Elliot of Dunstable. 

v. Calvin, born July 21, 1762. He was an apprentice of Augus- 
tus Blanchard, then of Amherst. He was a soldier in the 
First Continental Regiment and died in the service 1781. 

vi. Elizabeth, born 6, 1769. 

vii. Levina, born July 26, 1771. 



Thirty Diuistablc Families. 33 

4. John Honey, son of Peter. He lived in Dunstable and 
was a soldier in Col. James Reed's regiment. He died 
in the service, October 24, 1776. His wife was Elizabeth. 

i. Katy, born March 2, 1759; married November 4, 1783, Jon- 
athan Lovewell, see. She married, second, February 3, 
1791, Theodore French, see. 

ii. Elijah, born July 29, 1764. He lived in Dunstable. 

iii. Shepard. There is no record of his birth, but probably he 
was a son of John and Elizabeth. He lived in Dunstable. 

5. Parmenter Honey, son of Peter Honey, Jr., was born 
in Dunstable, August 28, 1753. He was a soldier in the 
Revolution. He lived in Dunstable, Hollis, and again 
in Dunstable. He married November 7, 1775, Sarah 
Hale of Hollis. He married, second, December 22, 1785, 
Rebecca Snow. His descendants are numerous in 
Cheshire and Sullivan counties in New Hampshire and 
in many towns in Vermont. 

i. Parmenter, born January 30, 1776; married Hannah White. 
He lived in Lyndeborough and in Acworth, N. H., where 
he died March 8, 1854. Twelve children. 

ii. Solomon. 

iii. Calvin, married in Watertown, May 5, 1808, Susannah Nut- 
ting. Two children born in Watertown, Mass. 

iv. Luther, married Betsey Burroughs, daughter of Joseph and 
Lydia (Preston) Burroughs. Lived in Tyngsborough, 
Mass. 

v. Sarah. 

6. Joseph Honey was a soldier in the Revolution and later 

had a family and lived in Dunstable. Very probably 
he was a son of one of the foregoing families. 

7. Ann Honey, of one of the foregoing families, married 

June 22, 1794, Moses Went worth, born in Groton or 
Harvard, 1773, son of Moses and Mind well (Stone) 
Wentworth. He died at East Constable, New York, 
February 5, 1848; she died September 26, 1842. Five 
children. 

1. Lovewell. During several years immediately preced- 
ing 1665, there were dwelling in Boston two men of 
the same name, John Lowell; one was a cooper, the 
other a tanner. This fact is not noted by Savage or 
in the Lowell Genealogy. John Lowell, the cooper, was 



34 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

a son of John and a grandson of Percival Lowell. He 
married, March 3, 1653, Hannah Proctor, who became 
the mother of John, Mary and Peter, and who was 
living in 1661. He married, second, probably in 1664, 

Naomi , who was the mother of eleven children. 

It is currently stated that the second wife was Naomi 
Sylvester, which is possible but is not proven. Savage 
and Lowell Genealogy erroneously state that John 
Lowell, the cooper, married in 1658, Elizabeth Sylvester. 
This was three or more years before the death of his 
first wife, Hannah, and both authorities give to John, 
the cooper, the children of John, the tanner. 

John Lowell, the tanner, is the ancestor of the Love- 
well family of Dunstable. The date of his arrival in 
Boston is not definitely known. He was there in 1657, 
and January 24, 1658, he married in Scituate, Eliza- 
beth Sylvester, born January 23, 1644, daughter of 
Richard and Naomi (Torrey) Sylvester of Scituate. 
The record of the publishment and of the marriage 
is at Scituate : "These are to Certyfy all those to Whom 
It may Conscirne that John Lowwell and Elizabeth Sil- 
vester hath Been Lawfully Published accordinge to 
law three Lecture Dayes. 

William Coursser. 
Witness, Henry Bridgman. 

John Lowwell abovesayed was Marryed to Elizabeth 
Silvester January the 24 th 1658 pr Mr. Hatherly. In 
Scittuate." 

William Courser and Henry Bridgman were resi- 
dents of Boston, where the intention of marriage was 
published three times. 

John Lowell and his wife, Elizabeth, lived in Boston 
until 1765, when they removed to Rehoboth. In 1669, 
he received grants of land in Rehoboth, where he lived 
until about 1680, when he removed to Lynn. After his 
removal from Rehoboth he was taxed a non-resident 
proprietor in that town about twenty years. He came 
from Lynn to Dunstable in 1682 or 1683. He and his 
sons, John and Joseph, were among the early settlers 
of the town and all were prominent in the affairs of 
the settlement. He was a selectman of Dunstable, 1689. 
If the records were complete it is reasonable to assume 
that he would have credit for other elections to office. 
During the troublous times of King William's War, his 
son, Joseph, and his three married daughters removed 
from Dunstable and in 1700, John, the father, and his 



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Thirty Dunstable Families. 35 

wife, Elizabeth, were living in Sudbury. The date and 
place of his death have not been discovered. In 1700 
then of Sudbury, he sold to William Woodcock of Re- 
hoboth four tracts of land in Scituate and Attleborough. 
Until 1694, Attleborough was a part of Rehoboth. The 
deed is dated at Sudbury, June 20, 1700, and is recorded 
in the Registry of Deeds at Taunton. His wife, Eliza- 
beth, joined in the conveyancer/- The original name of 
this family was Lowell. A person is not responsible 
for the form in which his name is written by the clerks 
of churches and towns. In the record of his publish- 
ment and marriage, the name is Lowwell. The birth 
of two children of John and Elizabeth Lowell is re- 
corded in Boston. Six children were baptized at the 
Second Church of Scituate, now Norwood. The name 
of the father is written John Lowel four times, and John 
Lowell two times. In records of Rehoboth appear 
John Lowell and John Lovell, while the Lynn record 
presents the form of John Lovill. His name in the 
deed of 1700 and his signature are written John Lov- 
well, and here is found the easy inflection from Low- 
well to Lovewell. His children, and very uniformly 
his descendants in Dunstable and elsewhere, have writ- 
ten the name Lovewell. His wife, Elizabeth Sylvester, 
was a daughter of Richard and Naomi (Torrey) Sylves- 
ter of Scituate. Four of their six children were born 
in Boston and two in Rehoboth. 

i. John, born in Boston, April 7, 1660; baptized in Scituate 
June 17, 1660. 

ii. Joseph, baptized, Scituate, May 25, 1662. There is no record 
of his birth. He was born in 1661. 

iii. Patience, born in Boston, October 7, 1662; baptized in 
Scituate, June 7, 1663. The Vital Records of Scituate 
Recently published, give the date of this baptism, June 7, 
1662, but the original church records say June 7 1663' 
She married in Lynn, March 28, 1682, Samuel Beale. See 
Beale Register. 

iv. Elizabeth, born in Boston, 1664 ; baptized in Scituate, August 

21, 1664. She married William Beale, see. 
v. Phebe. born in Rehoboth, December 25, 1666; baptized in 

^ clt ™' A August n > l667 ' married in Chelmsford, July 
24, 1685, Andrew Cooke, see. 

vi. Zaccheus. born in Rehoboth, December 24, 1668: died at 
Lynn, September 28, 1681. 

John Lovewell, son of John and Elizabeth (Sylvester) 
Lovewell, was born April 7, 1660. In childhood and 



36 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

youth he lived in Rehoboth and Lynn. With the con- 
sent of his father, Joseph Sylvester, an uncle, was ap- 
pointed his guardian, October 29, 1670. Probably it was 
a limited guardianship relating to an inheritance from 
his grandfather, Richard Sylvester, who died in 1663. 
For a similar purpose and on the same day, John Love- 
well, his father, was appointed guardian of Esther 
Sylvester, a younger sister of his wife. 

The nuncupative will of Richard Craze, who died in 
Boston, was attested by Thomas Wiborne and Jabez 
Heaton, April 28, 1670. They testified that the deceased 
willed "ten pounds to the eldest son of John Lovell, 
a tanner of Rehoboth." See New England Historic 
Genealogical Register, Vol. 48, page 460. 

He was one of the earliest permanent settlers of 
Dunstable, coming hither with his father and brother, 
1683. He was a farmer. He was industrious, honest 
and respected and frequently was elected to office. He 
was a selectman 1693 and probably in other years of 
which the record is lost. His usefulness in life was 
refreshed and renewed in the good works of his sons 
and grandsons, and forever the name of Lovewell will 
be honored in the annals of Dunstable. 

He married at Dunstable, December 7, 1686, Anna 
Hassell, born October 6, 1669, a daughter of Joseph 
and Anna (Perry) Hassell of Dunstable. She died 
January 5, 1754. Fox misread the record and states 
that the widow of Capt. John Lovewell died January 5, 
1754. The record is: "Hannah Lovewell, wife of John 
Lovewell, senior, deceased y e 5 of January 1754; buried 
7 th ." Much has been written of the extreme age of 
John Lovewell and of his service in the army of Crom- 
well. The record is firmer and more consistent than the 
traditions. His age and the age of his wife were 
each ten years less than stated in the deposition dated 
March 16, 1744, but such discrepancy is often met in 
ancient affidavits. See Register 55, page 186. John 
Lovewell very probably died in 1755, aged 95. Four 
children of John and Anna (Hassell) Lovewell were 
born in Dunstable. 

4. i. John, born October 14, 1691. 

ii. Hannah, married Lieut. Josiah Farwell, born August 27, 
1698, son of Henry and Susannah (Richardson) Farwell. 
He was a comrade in arms with his brother-in-law, Capt. 
John Lovewell, and his lieutenant in three expeditions. 
He died on the field of battle May 8, 1725. Their only 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 37 

child, Hannah, born January 27, 1723, married John Cham- 
berlain of Merrimack. 

5. iii. Zaccheus, born July 22, 1701. 

6. iv. Jonathan, born May 14, 1713. 

3. Joseph Lovewell, son of John and Elizabeth (Sylvester) 

Lovewell, was born in Boston, 1661. He came to Dun- 
stable with the family in 1683, and resided here about 
eleven years. About' 1693, he removed to the part of 
Watertown now Weston. He was a member of the 
church of Watertown and when a church was organized 
in Weston he became a member of that church. I have 
not found a record of his first marriage. Mary, his 
wife, died in Weston, December 1, 1729. He married, 
second, May 5, 1730, Hannah (Johnson) Pierce, daugh- 
ter of John Johnson of Cambridge and widow of Fran- 
cis Pierce of Weston. He died in Weston, October 9, 
1732. His widow, Hannah, died in Hopkinton in 1760. 
Two children of Joseph and Mary Lovewell. 

7. i. Joseph, born in Dunstable, May 3, 1691. 

ii. Mary, born 1695. She was reared in the family of her uncle, 
Andrew Cooke, and was known as Mary Cooke. She 
married Samuel Morse, born June 4, 1687, son of Samuel 
and Deborah Morse. In Cambridge, Probate Records, old 
series, No. 10,188, is an agreement dated November 6, 
1732, between Hannah, widow of Joseph Lovewell, de- 
ceased, and her two step-children, Joseph Lovewell and 
Mary Morse, wife of Samuel Morse. They lived in Need- 
ham, where their nine children were born and where she 
died November 20, 1787, aged 92. He died April 5, 1736. 

4. Capt. John Lovewell, son of John and Anna (Hassell) 

Lovewell, was born in Dunstable, October 14, 1691. 
The danger of an exposed frontier is the efficient school 
of the soldier. In his childhood and youth, John Love- 
well was familiar with the musket, with garrisons and 
with measures of defence. In his memory was the 
unfading story that in a single month his grandfather 
and grandmother, Joseph and Anna (Perry) Hassell, 
his uncle, Benjamin Hassell, Christopher Temple, and 
Obadiah Perry, who had married aunts of his mother, 
were slain by the merciless foe of the settlement. He 
recalled that in 1706 five soldiers and six of his neigh- 
bors were slain within the town of Dunstable. He 
was twelve years of age and too young for service 
when Capt. William Tyng, commanding the first com- 
pany of snow shoe men, returned to Dunstable with 



38 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

trophies of victory. He saw the scalps of Indians 
borne in triumph and in the inspiration of his surround- 
ings he constantly advanced to the higher grades in the 
school of the soldier. 

Succeeding these events there were a few years of 
peace with the Indians. The war was renewed in 1723 
and again the hardy men of the frontiers assumed an 
attitude of defence. In 1724, four were captured and 
eight were killed by the Indians in this town. John 
Lovewell immediately proposed to raise a company and 
to march into the haunts of the enemy. He was com- 
missioned a captain and at the same time Josiah Far- 
well was commissioned a lieutenant and Jonathan 
Robbins, ensign. In the last week of November, 1724, 
with thirty men, including officers, Capt. Lovewell set 
out on a tedious march to the region of Lake Winne- 
pesaukee, and December 10, the company killed one 
Indian and captured two, one of the captives being 
a boy. The second expedition marched from Dunstable 
January 29, 1725, including officers there were eighty- 
eight men in the company. After a few days thirty 
men were sent home on account of a scarcity of pro- 
visions. When near the lake, February 21, 1725, the 
company killed ten Indians and then set out for Boston 
to obtain the bounty offered for Indian scalps. They 
were at Dover February 23, and arrived in Boston 
March 9, 1725. The Journal of Capt. Lovewell of this 
march is found in New England Historic Genealogical 
Register, Vol. 7, page 62. The third company under the 
same officers marched from Dunstable, April 15, 1725. 
Including officers there were forty-seven men. Three 
were honorably excused during the outward march, 
ten were left at a fort erected in Ossipee and thirty- 
four were on duty under Capt. Lovewell in the morn- 
ing of the memorable battle, May 8, 1725. Of these, 
Capt. Lovewell and eleven others were killed and buried 
on the field of battle ; three were mortally wounded 
and died near the scene of conflict ; nine were more or 
less seriously wounded ; nine escaped without wounds 
and one retired from the field and fled to the fort in the 
early progress of the battle. For a more extended ac- 
count of the three expeditions commanded by Capt. 
Lovewell, see Historical Sermon by Rev. Thomas 
Symmes of Bradford ; "The Expeditions of Capt. John 
Lovewell" by Frederick Kidder and sketches in his- 
torical publications. The names of all the men of the 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 39 

third expedition with condensed sketches are found in 
in the Register, Vol. 63, page 288. It is remarkable 
that a record of the marriage of Capt. John Lovewell 
has not been discovered, or that tradition does not make 
known the full name of his wife. Her Christian name 
was Hannah. She was the executrix of his estate and 
a few years later married Benjamin Smith of Merri- 
mack, in whose family her children were reared. See 
Smith Register. Three children of Capt. John and 
Hannah Lovewell. 

8. i. John, born June 30, 1718. 

ii. Hannah, born July 24, 1721; married May 31, 1739, Capt. 
Joseph Baker, born in Roxbury, Mass., January 25, 1714, 
son of Thomas and Sarah (Pike) Baker. The township 
of Suncook, now Pembroke, was granted to the forty- 
seven men of Capt. Lovewell's third expedition and to 
make the number sixty, thirteen men of the second ex- 
pedition were made grantees. Mrs. Baker inherited one- 
third of the right granted to the heirs of Capt. John Love- 
well. They settled in Pembroke, where their eleven 
children were born. Their descendants are numerous and 
among those well-known to the present generation are 
Mary Baker Eddy, Hon. Henry M. Baker of Bow, N. H., 
and others. 

9. iii. Nehemiah, born January 9, 1725-6, posthumous. 

. Col. Zaccheus Lovewell, son of John and Anna (Has- 
sell) Lovewell, was born in Dunstable July 22, 1701. 
Imbued with a military spirit, which distinguishes the 
family, he was early engaged in the Indian Wars and 
was promoted to the rank of major. In 1759, he was 
commissioned a colonel and given the command of a 
regiment of one thousand men for the reduction of 
Canada. Of his regiment John Goffe was lieutenant 
colonel but only a fragment of the rolls are preserved. 
In 1760, the militia of the province was reorganized and 
Zaccheus Lovewell was commissioned colonel of the 
fifth regiment and held the position until 1767, when he 
was succeeded by Edward Goldstone Lutwyche. He 
lived a few years before 1740 in Nottingham West, now 
Hudson, and was a moderator and selectman of that 
town. Later he was a prominent and useful citizen 
of Dunstable, where he was frequently elected to office. 
In reward for his service in the Indian wars he was one 
of the six grantees of 2190 acres adjoining Pembroke. 
He died at Dunstable, April 12, 1772. He married 
Esther Hassell, born in Dunstable, July 30, 1709, a 
daughter of Joseph Hassell, Jr. Nine children. 



40 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

i. Zaccheus, born February 19, 1726-7; died young. 
■''j ii. Esther, born November 20, 1728. 

iii. Lucy, born January 12, 1730-1; married Joseph Blanchard, 

see. 
iv. Molly, born May 26, 1732; married Capt. Benjamin French, 

son of Joseph French, see. 

v. Zaccheus, born December 15, 1735. 

10. vi. Noah, born April 1, 1742. 

vii. Sarah, born October 25, 1744. 

viii. Hannah, born February 17, 1747; married May 31, 1761, 
Joseph Hale. They lived in Dunstable, where eight 
children were born. He was a son of Thomas Hale, being 
of a branch of the Heald family who wrote the name Hale. 

ix. Bridget, born July 10, 1749; married Augustus Blanchard, a 
son of Col. Joseph Blanchard, see. 

6. Jonathan Lovewell, son of John and Anna (Hassell) 
Lovewell, was born in Dunstable, May 14, 1713. He lived 
in an historic era. In childhood and youth he was 
inured to the dangers of the frontier and the extreme 
cruelties of Indian warfare. His active life covered the 
golden age of the province under the Wentworths, the 
Revolution, and the early years of the independent 
state of New Hampshire. He was active and prom- 
inent in town affairs and frequently elected to office. 
He was a representative in the provincial house of rep- 
resentatives during the session which convened Septem- 
ber 19, 1752, and dissolved September 18, 1755. In this 
service his record is conspicuous. At the session con- 
vened November 14, 1758, Mr. Lovewell appeared for 
Dunstable and Dr. John Hale for Dunstable and Hollis, 
both being elected the same day and by two sections 
of the same meeting. The house of representatives de- 
clared the elections void and refused to admit either 
of the gentlemen. Through the temper of Gov. Went- 
worth, the session was abruptly dissolved, February 4, 
1762, and a new election of representatives was held 
throughout the province. The house convened March' 
10, 1762, and Dr. John Hale of Hollis, who had been 
elected for Dunstable and Hollis, was admitted. 

Dunstable was incorporated by New Hampshire, 
April 1, 1746. There was a division of sentiment con- 
cerning the settlement of Rev. Samuel Bird. The first 
town meeting was rent in twain. Zaccheus Lovewell 
was the moderator of one meeting and Jonathan Love- 
well was the clerk of the other. An appeal was pre- 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 41 

sented to the general court. Those opposed to Mr. Bird 
were represented by Col. Joseph Blanchard and the 
friends of Mr. Bird were represented by Jonathan Love- 
well. It was a vigorous contest occupying two days. 
The general court declared both meetings illegal. 
He was a collector of excise several years beginning 
1753. For the expedition to Crown Point, 1755, the 
general court appointed Jonathan Lovewell a com- 
missary of the regiment commanded by Col. Joseph 
Blanchard. In 1768, some difficulty arose in the collec- 
tion of taxes of Amherst, and an appeal was made to 
the general court for relief. The subject was referred 
to Jonathan Lovewell, Edward Goldstone Lutwyche 
and Samuel Patten with instructions to collect evidence 
and report the facts to the general court. In the Rev- 
olution he was a delegate from Dunstable in the first, 
second, fourth and fifth provincial congresses. In the 
third congress Dunstable was represented by Joseph 
Ayers. The fifth congress adopted a temporary con- 
stitution and by resolution became the first house of 
representatives of the state of New Hampshire. He 
was a member of the House of Representatives during 
the two succeeding years and was twice elected one of 
the State Committee of Safety. For many years he was 
a justice of the peace and January 26, 1776, he was ap- 
pointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for 
the County of Hillsborough. At the reorganization of 
the courts under the permanent constitution. Judge 
Lovewell was succeeded in 1784 by Judge Timothy 
Farrar. 

Jonathan Lovewell married in Newbury, Mass., 
October 16, 1734, Bridget Honey, daughter of Peter 
Honey, see. It is probable that she died within a few 
years after marriage. He died in 1792, and sleeps in 
an unmarked grave, but his name lives and his memory 
abides in the annals of Dunstable and of New Hamp- 
shire. No children. 

Joseph Lovewell, son of Joseph and Mary Lovewell, 
was born in Dunstable, May 3, 1691. In his early 
childhood, the family removed to Weston, where he 
resided through his subsequent life. He married De- 
cember 22, 1714, Deborah Morse, born January 10, 1690, 
a daughter of Samuel and Deborah Morse. He died 
January 23, 1763. His wife, Deborah, died January 19, 
1764. Ten children. 



42 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

i. Joseph, born 1715; died December 31, 1726. 

ii. Deborah, born June 14, 1719; died in September, 1719. 

iii. Deborah, born October 31, 1720; died July 3, 1725. 

iv. Isaac, born May 4, 1723; died November 13, 1735. 

v. Deborah, born October 4, 1725; married 1750, Samuel Ware. 
They lived in Needham, where five children were born. 

vi. Mary, born March 15, 1727. 

11. vii. Joseph, born October 27, 1729. 

viii. Elizabeth, born February 4, 1731-2; died November 28, 1748. 

ix. Hannah, born 1734; died 1734. 

x. Patience, twin, born 1734; died 1734. 

8. John Lovewell, son of Capt. John and Hannah Love- 

well, was born in Dunstable, June 30, 1718. He was 
an active and respected citizen of Dunstable where he 
died July 2, 1762. He was commissioned a lieutenant 
in 1745. He married at Hampton Falls, N. H., Novem- 
ber 2, 1739, Rachel Lund, daughter of William Lund of 
Dunstable, see. Seven children, born in Dunstable. 

i. Rachel, born May 18, 1740. 

ii. Anna, born February 29, 1742-3; died in August, 1758. 

iii. John, born November 16, 1744. He was a soldier in the 
Revolution, serving in Capt. Walker's company at Bunker 
Hill and siege of Boston, 1775; in Capt. Read's company 
of Col. Baldwin's regiment, 1776; in Lieut. Brown's com- 
pany at Saratoga, 1777; and in Capt. Frye Bailey's com- 
pany, Vermont service, in later years. He removed to 
Corinth, Vermont, probably in 1778, where he died April 
18, 1815. He married Vodica Lovewell, daughter of Capt. 
Nehemiah Lovewell, see. Five children. Sophia, who 
married Jacob Mills; Hannah; Louisa; John, who died 
unmarried; Nehemiah, born 1803, married Martha Mills. 
Two of the sons of Nehemiah and Martha (Mills) Love- 
well, John, and Joseph Taplin Lovewell, are graduates 
of Yale. 

iv. Jonathan, born August 20, 1747; married November 14, 
1783, Caty Honey, daughter of John and Elizabeth Honey, 
see. He died March 15, 1788; his widow married, second, 
February 3, 1791, Theodore French, see. 

v. Mary, born March 10, 1749. 

vi. James, born October 15, 1752; died November 27, 1753. 

vii. Zaccheus, born May 22, 1756; died October 8, 1758. 

9. Col. Nehemiah Lovewell, son of Capt. John and Han- 

nah Lovewell, was born at Dunstable, January 9, 1726, 



Thirty Dunstable Families- 43 

posthumous. He was reared at Merrimack in the family 
of his step-father, Benjamin Smith. He married at 
Dunstable, November 24, 1748, Rachel Farwell, a 
daughter of Jonathan and Susannah (Blanchard) Far- 
well. After his marriage he lived in Dunstable over 
twenty years, occupying a prominent position in town 
affairs. In the French and Indian War he served in 
three campaigns. He was a lieutenant of Col. Blanch- 
ard's regiment, 1755, a captain of Col. Hart's regiment, 
1758 and a captain of Col. Goffe's regiment, 1760. 
In 1770, he removed from Dunstable to Newbury, Vt, 
and was in the service almost continuously during the 
Revolution. He was a captain of Col. Bedel's regiment 
1777 and 1778, and also of Major Wait's battalion of 
rangers and in this service he was captured but soon 
released. In the border warfare he commanded com- 
panies and military posts almost continuously from 1779 
to 1782. After the war he was a colonel of the militia. 
Soon after the Revolution he removed to Corinth, Ver- 
mont, where he died March 23, 1801. He was an honest, 
industrious, efficient man. 

Of Col. Nehemiah and Rachel (Farwell) Lovewell 
there were thirteen children born in Dunstable, the 
youngest being an infant when the family removed to 
Vermont. 



Catherine, born June 17, 1749; married September 29, 1769, 
Major John Taplin, born 1748, son of Col. John and 
Hepsibah (Brigham) Taplin. He was a soldier in the 
French and Indian War and in the Revolution. He re- 
jnoved from Newbury to Corinth, Vt., and was sheriff 
of the county. Subsequently he lived in Berlin and in 
Montpelier. Through the active years of his life he 
was conspicuous in town and state affairs. His wife, 
Catherine, died July 16, 1794. He married, second, Lydia 
Gove, who died February 11, 1849. He died 1835. Twelve 
children. 

Susannah, born July 22, 1750; died October 26, 1758. 

Hannah, born July 22, 1750, twin; died October 31, 1758. 

Nehemiah, born July 1, 1752. Soldier in the Revolution. He 
was at Bunker Hill and later a captain of Col. Herrick's 
and Col. Fletcher's regiments. He married August 8, 1781, 
Betsey Haseltine, born, Newbury, Vt., May 4, 1763, daugh- 
ter of John and Sarah (Bedel) Haseltine. He was a 
farmer and innholder in Newbury, Vt., where he died 
July 14, 1801. She died November 18, 1850. 

Betsey, born June 25, 1754; married Mansfield Taplin, a 
brother of Major John Taplin. Lived at Corinth. 



44 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

vi. Henry, born January 9, 17S7. He served in Capt. Walker's 
company at Bunker Hill and siege of Boston, 1775, in 
Col. Bedel's regiment, 1778, and in the frontier service 
of Vermont. He died in Orleans County, New York, 1812. 

vii. Zaccheus, born November 8, 1758. In the Revolution he 
served in his father's company of Col. Bedel's regiment 
and in several companies of Vermont organizations com- 
manded by Capt. Thomas Johnson, Capt. Simeon Stevens, 
Capt. Nehemiah Lovewell, Capt. John G. Bailey, and was 
a sergeant at Fort Wait in Corinth. He married Hepsi- 
bah Taplin, who was the mother of seven children : 
Zaccheus, Betsey, Hepsibah, Joseph Bliss, Moodey Bedel, 
William and Jonathan. Hepsibah, wife of Zaccheus, died 
about 1800. He married, second, Irene Lyman Loveland, 
by whom he had three children ; Nehemiah, Samuel and 
Lyman. Of these, Nehemiah, born February 1, 1803, 
married July 20, 1826, Sarah C. Hubbard, married, second, 
August 19, 1845, Phebe (Cole) Hill. He was a surveyor, 
living several years in Orleans County, New York, and 
beginning 1855, at Coldwater, Michigan. He died in 
Chicago, Illinois, January 3, 1890. His youngest son, 
Charles Hubert Lovewell, M. D., born October 9, 1848, 
University of Michigan, M. D., 1871, is a skillful physician 
of Chicago. 

viii. Jonathan, born November 7, 1760; married May 28, 1801, 
Sophia Taplin. He was a farmer of Corinth, where he 
died January 1, 1817. Four children. 

ix. Robert, born October 1, 1762; married January 2, 1787, Polly 
Taplin, a sister of Major John, Mansfield, Sophia and 
Hepsibah, who married sisters and brothers of Robert. 
He was in Capt. Farnsworth's company at battle of Platts- 
bur^?. He lived at St. Albans, Vermont. He died Sep- 
tember 4, 1838. His wife died November 10, 1869. Nine 
children. 

x. Vodica, born April 18, 1764. In record of birth at Dun- 
stable, the name is written Noadica. She married her 
cousin, John Lovewell, son of John and grandson of 
Capt. John, see. 

xi. John, born March 18, 1766; married Sally (Drew) Bailey. 

xii. Joseph, born January 6, 1768. 

xiii. Rachel, born June 8, 1770; married Samuel Hillard. 

J -IAL^Gen. Noah Lovewell, son of Col. Zaccheus and Esther 

' (Hassell) Lovewell, was born in Dunstable, April 1, 
1742. He married December 17, 1767, Mary Farwell, 
born January 10, 1745, daughter of Oliver and Abigail 
(Hubbard) Farwell. He was one of the most prominent 
and useful men who have lived in Dunstable. At the 
beginning of the Revolution he was a captain of the 
Dunstable company and in the reorganization of the 
fifth regiment he was commissioned lieutenant colonel 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 45 

of Col. Moses Nichols' regiment. In raising men and 
as one of the paymasters of the state he proved an effi- 
cient officer and in mean time he was one of the com- 
missioners for Hillsborough county, having charge and 
conducting the sale of the confiscated estates of the 
loyalists. He was appointed colonel of the regiment, 
succeeding Col. Nichols, March 30, 1781, and in the 
reorganization of the militia under the constitution, he 
was commissioned colonel of the fifth regiment, Decem- 
ber 21, 1784, and promoted to brigadier general Novem- 
ber 7, 1788. He was the first postmaster of Dunstable, 
a selectman many years and a delegate to the fourth 
provincial congress and a representative from Decem- 
ber, 1778, to December, 1779. Under the state con- 
stitution of 1784, he was a representative several years 
and maintained a foremost position among able col- 
leagues. He died May 29, 1820. His widow, Mary, 
died November 24, 1835. 

i Molly, born August 24, 1768; married November 24, 1790, 
Giles Shurtleff, born in Middleton, Mass. January 
19 1768, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Leach) Shurtleff. 
They lived in Dunstable several years when they removed 
to Croydon, N. H., where he died, 1820. They had six 
children. 
Abigail, born June 19, 1770; married February 27, 1786, Israel 
Whitney Cummings, born in Hudson, N. H., August 23, 
1762 son of Eleazer and Hannah (Whitney) Cum- 
mings. Lived in Woodstock and Thetford, Vt. He died 
February 19, 1836. She died March 13, 1845. Three 
children. 

iii. Zaccheus, born June 10, 1772. 

iv. Esther, born June 9, 1774; died October 17, 1777. 

v. Noah, born November 11, 1776; died May 6, 1777. 

vi. John, born February 10, 1778. 

vii. Esther, born May 16, 1780; married Luther Taylor, see. 

viii. Noah, born September 2, 1782. 

ix. Moody Dustin, born March 1, 1785. 

x. Betsey, born March 2, 1788; married Hon. Jesse Bowers, 
November 12, 1785, son of William and Hannah ( Kidder) 
Bowers of Chelmsford. They lived in Dunstable. He was 
a representative and state senator and prominent in finan- 
cial affairs. Of their six children, a daughter, Mary 
Augusta, married Gen. John Bedel of Bath. 

11 Joseph Lovewell, son of Joseph and Deborah (Morse) 
Lovewell, born in Weston, October 27, 1729. He was 



n. 



46 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

a soldier in the French and Indian War and was cap- 
tured by the enemy. After a fortunate escape from 
captivity, he suffered extreme hardship while returning 
to his home. He married November 2, 1761, Hannah 
Warren, born November 1, 1741, daughter of Daniel 
and Deborah (Phillips) Warren of Concord, Massachu- 
• setts. He lived in Weston. He is the ancestor of all 
the descendants in male lines of Joseph Lovewell of 
Dunstable and Weston. Hannah, his wife, died October 
8, 1782. He married, second, March 10, 1794, Ruth 
(Child) Walker, widow of John Walker. He died 1801 ; 
Ruth, his widow, died 1809. Ten children. 

i. Isaac, born July 23, 1762; married April 9, 1788, Lucy Har- 
rington, born 1752, daughter of Adino and Esther (Hast- 
ings) Harrington. Removed to Livermore, Me. She died 
March 6, 1807. He married, second, Widow Lucy Mer- 
rill. He died November 10, 1835. She died July 23, 1856. 
Four children. 

ii. Joseph, born October 2, 1763; married at Templeton, April 
10, 1796, Sarah Wilkinson, born, Needham, May 9, 1768, 
daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Gay) Wilkinson. He 
removed to Hubbardston, Massachusetts. His descend- 
ants are numerous. He died November 21, 1S14. She 
died August 29, 1847. Seven children. 

iii. Nathan, born April 21, 1765. He lived in Lancaster, N. H., 
and in Lunenburg, Vt. He married December 27, 1792, 
Charlotte Stockwell, born Lancaster, October 24, 1770, 
daughter of Emmons and Ruth (Page) Stockwell. He 
died November 16, 1819; she died February 26, 1816. 
Eleven children. 

iv. Jonathan, born April 6, 1768; married April 6, 1806, Eliza- 
beth Goldthwait. He lived in Weston, where two sons, 
Daniel and George, were born. He died 1813. 

v. Daniel, born July 31, 1770; married in Brookline, Mass., 
November 20, 1790, Nancy Jackson, born 1770, daughter 
of Thaddeus and Lydia (Woodward) Jackson. Removed 
to Livermore, Maine, where he died 1803. She married, 
second, Samuel Webster and died in Brookline, March 18, 
1861. Three children, Amasa and Luther, twins, born 
February 11, 1796; Hannah J., born 1S05, unmarried, died 
December 25, 1885. 

vi. Samuel, born 1772; baptized April 26, 1772. He lived in 
Weston, where he died August 3, 1851. He married August 
4, 1796, Abigail Bartlett, born Newton, Mass., June 26, 1766, 
daughter of Ebenezer and Anna (Ball) Bartlett. She died, 
the mother of three children, May 13, 1811. He married, 
second, February 11, 1812, Chloe Rice, born November 25, 
1776, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Lamb) Rice of East 
Sudbury, Mass. _ She died, leaving one son, May 15, 1825. 
He married, third, January 9, 1826, Asenath Goodnow, 
born Framingham, Mass., January 3, 1794, daughter of 
Ephraim and Nelly (Rice) Goodnow. She was the mother 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 47 

of two children. She died February 26, 1836. He married, 
fourth, March 27, 1838, Widow Jane Whitney. She died 
1839. Prof. Samuel Harrison Lovewell, a cultured musician, 
and now president and director of the Conservatory of 
Music, Quincy, Illinois, has made an exhaustive study of 
the Joseph Lovewell family. He is a son of Charles Baker 
and Martha Jane (Morse) Lovewell, and a grandson of 
Samuel and Asenath (Goodnow) Lovewell. 

vii. Elizabeth, born March 2, 1774; married Peter Godding, 
born, Watertown, October 28, 1763, son of Jonathan Cool- 
idge and Hannah (Learned) Godding. They lived in 
Livermore, Me. Twelve children. 

viii. Hannah, born 1777; baptized June 1, 1777; married Spencer 
Godding, born, Watertown, 1769, a brother of Peter 
Godding, who married her sister, Elizabeth. He died in 
Livermore, 1856. She died 1847. Nine children. 

ix. Rhoda, born 1779, removed to Philadelphia, Pa., there mar- 
ried John Baker, a shipwright who died 1809. She 
married, second, 1817, Joseph Sabins, a sea captain. She 
died February 2, 1871. 

x. Deliverance, born October 7, 1782; married William Cooper. 

12. Ichabod Lovewell, not placed but a son of one of the 
Dunstable families of Lovewell, served continuously 
in the army of the Revolution from May, 1775 until his 
death. He served in Capt. William Walker's company 
at Bunker Hill and siege of Boston, 1775, in one of the 
Continental regiments at Ticonderoga and in New 
Jersey, 1776, and in Col. Cillev's regiment from April 1, 
1777, until his death in July, 1777. 

Lund. On the roll of the company of Capt. Nathaniel 
Davenport, in King Philip's War, 1676, appears the name of 
Nicholas Lunn of Reading, and later in the same year he was a 
soldier stationed at Chelmsford. From the fact that he or his 
legal representatives did not apply for a right in any of the 
Narragansett townships, it is probable that he died without 
issue. There is no evidence that he was related to the Dun- 
stable family of the same name. 

Thomas Lund was a trader of Boston. July 18, 1650, he 
applied to and secured from William Aspinwall, the Recorder 
of the Suffolk County Court and a Notary Public, a protest 
against William Greene, master of the ship Szvallozv, from 
London, for the reason that the ship did not sail on the tenth 
day of March, 1649, according to promise, but did sail March 
29, and that said master did not take into said ship all the 
goods of the said Lunn. The same notary issues a certificate, 
dated March 18, 1650, that the ship Speedwell, of London, had 



48 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

delivered to Thomas Lunne, merchant of Boston, one butt, 
contents 1600 & quarter wht. Currans. 

March 16, 1672, Thomas Lunn was a witness to a deed of 
Samuel Bennett to Benjamin Muzzey of Rumney Marsh, con- 
veying land in Boston. He died before February 5, 1677, 
when administration on the estate of Thomas Lun, late of 
Boston, seaman, was granted to Benjamin Muzzey, Senior, of 
Rumney Marsh, in the right of Thomas the only child of said 
deceased. 

1. Thomas Lund, the only child of Thomas, came to Dun- 

stable about 1680, and was one of the proprietors of the 
township. During the troublous times of King Wil- 
liam's War, many of the families of Dunstable removed 
to the older towns. In a petition to the General Court 
preferred by Major Thomas Henchman, commander 
of the garrisons in this vicinity, he says : All the inhab- 
itants of Dunstable, excepting two families, desire to 
draw off, viz. : John Solendine and Thomas Lunn, whose 
garrisons are near to each other. For many years 
during seasons of alarm his house was one of the forti- 
fied garrisons of the settlement. 

He was a selectman and a useful citizen. He and 
his sons, Thomas and William, owned valuable and 
extensive tracts of land and the record of many deeds 
are at Cambridge and after 1741, at Concord, N. H. 
He was living in 1721, but there is no record of his death 
or of Eleanor, his wife. Four children. 

2. i. Thomas, born September 9, 1682. 

ii. Elizabeth, born September 29, 1684; married Henry Spald- 
ing, born November 2, 1680, son of Andrew and Hannah 
(Jefts) Spalding. They lived in Chelmsford. 

3. iii. William, born January 25, 1686-7. 

iv. Margaret, married in Concord, January 16, 1711-2, Lieut. 
Jonathan Robbins, see. Married, second, William Shattuck 
of Groton. 

2. Thomas Lund, son of Thomas and Eleanor Lund, was 

born in Dunstable, September 9, 1682. He married in 
Concord, Mass., January 16, 1711-2, Elizabeth Taylor, 
born August 7, 1690, daughter of Abraham and Mary 
(Whitaker) Taylor and a sister of Abraham Taylor of 
Dunstable. In 1723. he was a soldier in Capt. Jabez 
Fairbank's company, which was engaged in scouting 
for the protection of Dunstable, Groton, Lunenburg 
and Lancaster. He was one of the snow shoe men in 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 49 

Capt. Tyng's company, 1703-4, and was one of the eight 
men slain by the Indians near Thornton's ferry, Sep- 
tember 5, 1724. 

Administration on the estate of "Thomas Lund, killed 
by the Indian enemy." was granted to his widow, Eliz- 
abeth, October 22, 1724. David Taylor of Concord, her 
brother, was surety on her bond. The inventory was 
£408-10. 

The widow, Elizabeth, married, second, Isaac Cum- 
mings and lived in Dunstable. 

October 30, 1744, Thomas Lund, Jonathan Lund, 
Phineas Lund, all of Dunstable, and Edward Spalding 
and wife, Elizabeth of Nottingham, all children of 
Thomas Lund of Dunstable, deceased, sell to our 
brother, Ephraim Lund of Dunstable, their right in the 
dower of our mother, Elizabeth Cummings, formerly 
widow of Thomas Lund. Five children of Thomas and 
Elizabeth (Taylor) Lund. 

4. i. Thomas, born October 31, 1712. 

ii. Elizabeth, born May 14, 1715; married Edward Spalding, 
born in Chelmsford, March 8, 1707-8, son of Ebenezer 
Spalding. They lived in Hudson, where five children were 
born. 

5. iii. Jonathan, born October 12, 1717. 

6. iv. Ephraim, born August 3, 1720. 

7. v. Phineas, born April 3, 1723. 

3. William Lund, son of Thomas and Eleanor Lund, was 
born in Dunstable, January 25, 1686-7. In 1724 "while in 
the service of his country" he was captured by the 
Indians and conducted to Canada. In his petition to 
the General Court he alleges that "he suffered great 
hardships and was obliged to pay a great price for his 
ransom." He returned to his home before the expira- 
tion of many months and enlisted into the company of 
Capt. Eleazer Tyng, and served from June 10 to Novem- 
ber 10, 1725. Early in the service of this company they 
marched to the field of Capt. Lovewell's fight and there 
buried twelve men who fell in that memorable engage- 
ment. 

In consideration of his misfortune and suffering while 
in captivity the General Court of Massachusetts, in 1734, 
granted to William Lund four hundred acres of land 
which was surveyed in 1737. The grant was located in 
Goffstown. In 1739, in consideration of £400, he sold 



50 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

the grant to Francis Borland of Boston. He owned 
many parcels of land in Dunstable, Hudson and Merri- 
mack. He married at Groton, December 20, 1716, 
Rachel Holden, daughter of Stephen and Hannah 
(Lawrence) Holden of Groton, and granddaughter of 
Richard and Martha (Fosdick) Holden of Cambridge. 
He died about 1758. His will was proved February 28, 
1759. Five children. 

8. i. William, born July 18, 1717. 

ii. Rachel, born August 28, 1719; married Jobn Lovewell, son 
of Capt. John Lovewell, see. 

9. iii. Charity, born February 16, 1730-1. 

iv. Mary, born November 28, 1733 ; married James Underwood, 
v. Lucy, born May 26, 1736; died young. 

4. Dea. Thomas Lund, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Tay- 
lor) Lund, was born in Dunstable, October 31, 1712. He 
was a deacon, a town officer and a prominent citizen of 
Dunstable. He owned many parcels of land and his 
name as grantor or grantee frequently appears in the 
records. His first wife was Mary. A record of his 
marriage has not been discovered. She died January 
14 1748. He married, second, Sarah, who died April 
16^ 1801. He died February 24, 1790. 

i. Jesse, born March 10, 1737; died September 8, 1738. 

10. ii. Thomas, born March 12, 1740. 

11. iii. Joel, born November 27, 1752. 

iv. Sarah, born February 24, 1755; married December 9, 1779, 

James Jewell, 
v. Phebe, born April 15, 1757; married December 18, 1781, 

Thomas Roby. 
vi. Noah, born March 31, 1759; married December 6, 1786, 

Betty Hale. 

vii. Mary born November 7, 1760; married January 8, 1784. 
Nehemiah Wright, born October 12, 1756, son of John and 
Mary (Kendall) Wright. Removed to Nelson. 

viii. Daniel, born October 31, 1762; married January 25, 1791, 
Hepsibah Hunt, born September 5, 1766, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Mary (Hardy) Hunt of Dunstable. 

ix. Betty, born October 15, 1766. 

x. Dolly, born July 8, 1768. 

xi. Lydia, born July 8, 1768, twin. 

xii. Hannah, born October 5, 1769. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 51 

5. Capt. Jonathan Lund, son of Thomas and Elizabeth 
Taylor) Lund, was born in Dunstable, October 12, 
1717. He was a leading citizen of the town, a captain 
in the militia and a selectman. He married at Dun- 
stable, April 9, 1741, Jean Varnum, born at Dracut, 
April 13, 1713, daughter of Thomas and Joanna (Jewett) 
Varnum. She died September 14, 1764. He married 
second, October 22, 1765, Olive Sargent, a daughter of 
Dr. Nathaniel and Ruth (Jackson) Sargent of New 
Castle and Portsmouth. He died November 29, 1801 
Six children of the first and five of the second wife. 

i. Olive, born March 15, 1742. 

ii. Joanna born September 16. 1743; married October 6, 1763 
Dea. Benjamin Smith. He died in Dunstable, March 29 
1821. Joanna, his wife, died August 21, 1814. 

iii. Jonathan born July 24. 1747. He married Priscilla Cum- 
mings, born July 7, 1747, daughter of Ephraim and Eliz- 
abeth (Lutler) Cummings. In company with Jonathan 
IJan forth, he built a saw mill on Witch brook in 1766 
then in Monson and now in Hollis, near the line of Am- 
herst. He was a blacksmith, and his farm in Milford has 
been the poor farm of Milford. He died June 11 1828 

Eftr al !f' lVV T vif ^ died J an « ar .v 22, 1824. See History of 
Milford, N. II., for a record of ten children. 

iv. Mary, born August 24, 1749; died November 17, 1758. 

v. Oliver, born July 29, 1752; died March 18, 1776. 

vi. Meiiitable, born June 19, 1755; died November 28, 1758. 

vii. Joseph, born December 24, 1767. He lived in Dunstable 
where he died August 21, 1835. His widow, Betsey, 
died December 3 1863. Their son, Joseph S. Lund, died 
in Concord, N. H. December 27, 1882. 

viii. Nathaniel. 

ix. Olive, married 1800, Aaron Whitney, born 1772, son of 
Levi Whitney of Townsend. He lived in Amherst and 
in Calais, Maine. 

x. Elizabeth. 

xi. James Taylor. 

6. Ephraim Lund, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Taylor) 
Lund, was born in Dunstable, August 3, 1720; he mar- 
ried Rachel Pierce, born in Groton, October 21 17?3 
daughter of Stephen and Rachel Pierce. He lived in 
Amherst and in Dunstable until 1765, when he removed 
to Plymouth, N. H. He was the first town clerk of 
Plymouth and one of the first board of selectmen and 
he built the first mill in Plymouth. He removed in 



52 TJiirty Dunstable Families. 

\770 to Warren, N. H. Later he lived in Benton, 
where he died about 1796. It is probable that he had a 
second wife, Esther, but a record is not found. 

Rachel, born August 29, 1743. 

12. ii. Ephraim, born August 25, 1745. 

ii. Elizabeth, born October 23, 1748. 

v. Stephen, born July 1, 1751. He was a soldier in Col. Bedel's 
regiment in 1778. He lived in Warren, a pensioner, where 
he died 1843. 

v. Joseph, born April 28, 1754. He served in Col. Bedel's reg- 
iment 1776. He was a temporary resident of Benton, but 
lived many years in Warren. 

vi. Noadiah, born March 10, 1757, a soldier in the Revolution 
from Warren. 

vii. Susannah, born September 17, 1759. 

viii. Silas, born September 12, 1762, lived in Warren. 

Stephen Pierce, the father of Mrs. Lund, died in Groton, 
July 6, 1761. Articles of agreement concerning the estate 
made September 16, 1761, and recorded in Middlesex Registry, 
Vol. 68, page 436, are signed by the widow, Rachel Pierce, 
sons Jonathan and Stephen and Ephraim Lund and his wife 
Rachel, Jonathan Gilson and his wife Susannah, Nathan Fiske 
and his wife Mary, and by two unmarried daughters, Eliza- 
beth and Thankful Pierce. 

7. Phineas Lund, son of Thomas, Jr., born April 3, 1723. 
He lived in Dunstable, Lyndeborough and Amherst. 
He died in Amherst, December 2, 1818, aged 95. A 
record of his marriage has not been discovered. Nine 
children were born in Dunstable. 

i. Lucy, born January 31, 1745; married March 21, 1776, Benja- 
min Shepard of Amherst. 

ii. Rhoda, born August 30, 1748. 

iii. Samuel French, born July 25, 1751. 

iv. Jesse, born March 20, 1757. He was a soldier in the Rev- 
olution, and was wounded at Bunker Hill. Later he 
served on the quota of Harvard, Mass., 1777 to 1780. 
One Jesse Lund married in Bolton, Mass., July 25, 1803, 
Caty Parker. 

v. Bridget, born August 30, 1759; married February 24, 1791, 
Isaac Parkhurst of Temple. 

vi. Willard, born February 21, 1762; married Sarah Towne 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Burton) Towne of 
Temple. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 53 

vii. Catherine, born July 22, 1764. 

viii. Sarah, born February 19, 1768. 

ix. Rachel, born May 21. 1771 ; married about 1819, Jacob Dunck- 
lee of Amherst. His second marriage. 

8. William Lund, son of William and Rachel (Holden) 

Lund, was born in Dunstable, July 18, 1717. He was 
a farmer and a respected townsman. He married Sarah. 
He died March 20, 1782. Nine children. 

i. Hannah, born June 18, 1743; married William Roby. She 
died in Dunstable, June 11, 1838. 

ii. William, born May 11, 1745; died young. 

iii. Sarah, born April 4, 1747; married James Whitney; married, 
second, Isaac Pike. 

13 iv. John, born February 22, 1749. 

v. Mary, born April 17, 1752. 

vi. Levi, born December 12, 1754; married April 8, 1784, Sarah 
Cutler who died May 28, 1785. He married, second, 
Naomi Gibson. He died December 23, 1814. His descend- 
ants are numerous. 

vii. Rebecca, born March 15, 1757; married July 30, 1782, Daniel 
Woods, born February 15, 1760, son of Oliver and Sarah 
Woods of Dunstable. 

viii. William, born July 1, 1758. He was killed in the army of 
the Revolution. 

ix. Augustus, born December 17, 1764; married April 10, 1787, 
Joanna Smith, born in Dunstable, October 31, 1763, daugh- 
ter of Dea. Benjamin and Joanna (Lund) Smith. They 
lived in Dunstable and in Merrimack. Ten children. 

9. Charity Lund, son of William, born February 16, 

1730-1; married Lucy. He settled in Merrimack. He 
was a successful farmer. There is no record of the birth 
of his children. His will was probated June 25, 1793, 
and mention therein is made of wife Lucy, sons Char- 
ity, Stephen, John, James, Cosmo, William Jarathmeel 
and daughters Lucy, Elizabeth, Rachel, Sarah, Hannah, 
and Rebecca. 

The descendants of Charity Lund are numerous, but 
a record with dates is not at my command. His son, 
Stephen, married September, 1785. Lucy Danforth, born 
January 6, 1766, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Rich- 
ardson) Danforth. Stephen, son of Stephen and Lucy 
(Danforth) Lund, born in Merrimack, March 3, 1789, 
married in Hollis, September 12, 1810, Elizabeth Ober; 
married, second, in Hollis, June 2, 1813, Mary Hardy, 



54 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

born May 9, 1792, daughter of Nehemiah Hardy of 
Hollis. He lived in Merrimack. Charles Tylor Lund 
of Nashua is a grandson of Stephen Lund, Jr. 

10. Thomas Lund, son of Thomas, Jr., born March 12, 1740. 

He married Sarah Whitney. Eight children were born 
in Dunstable. He died February, 1821. His widow 
died December, 1831. 

i. Betty, born October 15, 1766. 

ii. Dolly, born July 8, 1768; married September 15, 1794, John 
Read. 

iii. Hannah, born October 5, 1769. 

iv. John, born 1772. 

v. Thomas. 

vi. Isaac. 

\ ii. Oliver, born April 8, 1779; married March 18, 1815, Orpah 
Dan forth, born January 2, 1789, daughter of Capt. William 
and Lucy (Pollard) Danforth. He died December 21, 
1866; she died March 2, 1867. 

viii. Sarah. 

ix. Noah. 

x. Huldah. 

11. Joel Lund, son of Thomas, Jr., born November 27, 1752. 

He was a lieutenant in the Revolution. He married 
Sarah. 

i. Joel, born October 18, 1773; married November 8, 1803, Pris- 
cilla Lund, born January 25, 1779, daughter of Jonathan, Jr., 
and Priscilla (Cummings) Lund of Milford. He lived 
in Hollis and in Nashua. 

ii. Sarah, born November 23, 1777. 

iii. Jane, born April 17, 1784. 

iv. Betsey, born August 16, 1787. 

12. Ephraim Lund, son of Ephraim and Rachel (Pierce) 

Lund, was born in Dunstable, August 25, 1745. He 
went to Plymouth in 1765, with his father, and in 1770 
to Warren. Little's History of Warren says he died 
in the army during the Revolution. According to the 
records of the family he returned from Grafton county 
and settled in Hollis. 

Ephraim Lund of Hollis served in Capt. Daniel 
Emerson's company in 1777, and was a prosperous 
farmer of that town. He married in Hollis, May 12, 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 55 

1772, Alice Wheeler, born December 1, 1745, daughter 
of Peter and Hannah (Colburn) Wheeler of Bedford, 
Mass., and Hollis. He died in Hollis, August 28, 1820; 
his wife died October 6, 1798. Seven children born in 
Hollis. 

i. Hannah, born September 7, 1772. 

ii. Sally, born March 8, 1774; married January 24, 1793, Samuel 
Barron. 

iii. Alice, born April 19, 1776. 

iv. Mary, born May 21, 1778; married November 10, 1797, Dea. 
Enos Hardy of Hollis. 

v. Ephraim, born August 14, 1780; died April 6, 1789. 

vi. Stephen, born October 29, 1783; married January 22, 1806, 
Rachel Shedd. 

vii. Ebenezer, born July 10, 1786. 

13. Major John Lund, son of William, Jr. born February 22, 
1749. He was a lieutenant in the Revolution and a 
major in the militia. He married March 26, 1772, 
Hannah Phelps. He died March 11, 1822. His widow 
died May 4, 1847, aged 96 years. 

i. Sarah, born June 30, 1772; married Cummings Pollard. 

ii. Lucy, born December 10, 1773 ; married Silas Read. 

iii. William, born January 25, 1778; married Rebecca Clark. 

iv. Hannah, born December 10, 1780; married Cummings 
Pollard. 

v. Rebecca, born December 10, 1780, twin. 

vi. Mary, born September 25, 1782; married S. I. Ettridge. 

vii. Clifton, born December 7, 1784; married June 13, 1815, 
Rebecca Carlton of Merrimack. He died April 26, 1857 
She died November 6, 1869. John C. Lund, born in 
Nashua, 1821 ; died January 14, 1896, was their son. 

viii. John, born December 1788, not married. 

ix. Clarissa, born May, 1793; married Timothy Presby. 

x. Jonathan, born September 17, 1796; married Rebecca Eaton. 

1. Patrick Marks, whose age was 55 in 1685, resided in 
Charlestown several years. His wife, Sarah, was ad- 
mitted to the church in Charlestown, April 10, 1687. 
The family removed to Dunstable in 1690. Scarcely 
had they made a home on the frontier before the In- 
dians made an assault upon the settlement, and on the 
evening of September 2, 1691, they murdered three of 
the Hassell family and a daughter of Patrick Marks. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 

He was a surveyor of highways in 1690, and sub- 
sequently the name disappears in the records of the 
town. The town and church records of Charlestown 
give the names of five children. 

Sarah, born April 23, 1662. 

Peter, born October 14, 1663 ; died November 20, 1663. 

Hannah, born October 5, 1664. 

Mercie, born February 5, 1667-8; admitted to the church 
in Charlestown, June 30, 1689. 

v. Mary, aged 18 years, was baptized in Charlestown, January 
20, 1688-9. It is recorded at Dunstable: "Mary Marks, 
the daughter of Patrick Marks was slain by the Indians 
on September 2, in the evening Anno Domini 1691." 

Robert Parris. This name is frequently written Parish. 
He was probably born before 1636. He lived in Groton, 
Massachusetts, from 1663 to 1676, when he removed to 
Dunstable. He was a soldier in King Philip's War, 
serving in Capt. Samuel Mosely's company, and at the 
garrison at Dunstable in 1676. Late in the same year 
he was appointed an assistant to Col. Jonathan Tyng, 
in the care of the friendly Indians who were supported 
by the province and colonized at Dunstable. He owned 
extensive tracts of land and was prominent in the coun- 
cils of the town. The records are not complete but it 
is manifest that he was one of the selectmen, 1683, 1687, 
1688, 1694, 1699, 1700, 1701, 1702, and in 1689 he was 
a representative. He was appointed from time to time 
on committees and joined with his townsmen in peti- 
tions to the General Court. 

Before the close of Queen Anne's War he removed 
from Dunstable to Chelsea, Massachusetts, probably in 
the year 1705, and there died in 1709. In his will, dated 
August 21, 1709, and proved September 5, 1709, he is 
styled "Robert Parris formerly of the town of Dun- 
stable, now living in Rumney Marsh." His wife, Eliz- 
abeth, was appointed executrix ; to her he bequeathed a 
life use of his homestead and other lands in Dunstable. 
At her decease the same was "to be equally divided 
between my two daughters, Mary Richardson and Han- 
nah Goff." There is no mention in the will of other 
children. There is mention of "fifty acres of land which 
my father John Blanchard gave to my wife in his will" 
and "fifty acres of land that her grandfather Hills gave 
to her in his will." 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 57 

Robert Parris married May 22, 1663, Seaborne 
(Bachelder) Cromwell, born in Charlestown, baptized 
March 12, 1634-5, daughter of William and Jane 
(Cowper) Bachelder, and widow of John Cromwell, 
see Cromwell family. He married, second, April 16, 
1667, Mary Crispe, born Watertown, May 20, 1638, 
daughter of Benjamin and Bridget Crispe. He married, 
third, about 1685, Elizabeth Blanchard, daughter of 
Dea. John and Hannah (Hills) Blanchard of Dunstable. 
Elizabeth, widow of Robert Parris, married, second, 
1710, Dea. Thomas Burrage, born May 26, 1663, -son of 
John and Joanna (Stower) Burrage of Lynn. This 
was his second marriage; his first wife was Elizabeth 
Breed. Dea. Burrage was a prominent citizen of Lynn, 
where he died March 11, 1717-8. One child of Robert 
and Seaborne Parish was born in Groton. Five children 
of Robert and Mary Parish were born in Groton, and 
one in Dunstable. 

i. Thomas, died April 18, 1668. 

ii. Mercy, born January 5, 1667-8. In record of birth the name 
is Mary. In subsequent records she is called Mercy. She 
married December 14, 1687, Josiah Richardson, born in 
Chelmsford, May 18, 1665, son of Josiah and Remembrance 
(Underwood) Richardson. They lived in Chelmsford, 
where he was a town clerk and selectman. He died 
November 21, 1711. She died April 25, 1743. They had 
six children. See Richardson Genealogy. 

iii. Anna, born April 2, 1669; died June 8, 1671. 

iv. Robert, born November 20, 1670. Not named in the will 
of his father. Probably died young. 

v. Anna, born September 10, 1672; died young. 

vi. Mary, born September 8, 1674; died young. 

vii. Hannah, born in Dunstable, 1679; married in Chelmsford, 
(date omitted in record,) John Go fife, born in Boston, 
September 18, 1679, son of John and Hannah (Sumner) 
Goffe. They removed from Boston to Londonderry, 1719. 
He died September 18, 1748. Four children. John born 
March 16, 1700-1701 ; married in Boston, October 16, 1722, 
Hannah Briggs. He was a colonel in the French _ and 
Indian War and one of the foremost men of his time; 
Hannah, born February 4, 1705-6, married February 9, 
1723, Edward Linkfield; Sarah, born August 10, 1709, mar- 
ried Benjamin Kidder; Mary, born April 12, 1711; married 
1737, Joseph Pearson ; married, second, Woods. 

Note — The story of the massacre of Robert Parris and his wife and 
daughter and the miraculous escape of two little daughters by_ an in- 
genious concealment in the cellar has been given in several publications. 
The event is not mentioned by Penhallow or by Pike. The story of the 
massacre was first published, 1823, in Farmer and Moore's Collections, 



58 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Vol. II, page 306. It has been refreshed and enlarged by Fox and 
Nason. The record proves that Robert Parris died in Chelsea and that 
his wife survived him. One of the little girls said to have been con- 
cealed in the cellar on the date of the assumed attack, was a wife and 
mother of several children and was safely living in Chelmsford; the 
other was married and living in Boston. 

1. Rev. Samuel Parris, son of Thomas Parris, came from 
Barbadoes to Boston about 1675. His father, Thomas, 
was a merchant in London and later in Barbadoes, 
where he died 1673. The son, Samuel, was a student 
at Harvard University, but did not graduate. He 
lived several years in Boston. He and his wife, Eliza- 
beth, were members of the First Church, 1681 to 1689. 
In 1685 he preached in Stow, and at times he was a 
teacher in several towns in that vicinity. He was set- 
tled over the church of Salem Village, now Danvers, 
November 19, 1689. He and his wife were foundation 
members of that church. During his ministry at Salem 
Village, the witchcraft delusion, originating in his fam- 
ily, was the occasion of bitter persecution and a few 
cruel executions. The delusion was a concerted act, 
founded on an abnormal condition of the public mind. 
No one person originated it, nor could many wiser men 
stay its rage. Mr. Parris has been unjustly censured 
because a member of his family was the first person 
accused of witchcraft. During the excitement of the 
time, his ministry at Salem Village was terminated in 
1696. Subsequently he lived several years in Water- 
town and Concord, where he was a trader and at times 
a licensed retailer. He began preaching in Dunstable 
in 1708, and preached here much of the time until 1712, 
and during these years he resided here. From this 
town he removed to Sudbury, living in the eastern part 
of the town, now Wayland. He was then a farmer, and 
at times a school teacher. He died February 27, 
1719-20. His wife, Elizabeth, died at Salem Village, 
July 14, 1696. He married, second, Dorothy Noyes, 
a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Darrell) Noyes of 
Sudbury. She died September 6, 1719. 

Three children of first and four of second wife. 

i. Thomas, born, Boston, October 25, 1681 ; died young. 

ii. Elizabeth, born Boston, November 28, 1682; married in 
Sudbury, January 13, 1709-10, Benjamin Barron, born 
about 1680, son of Ellis and Sarah (Ingersol) Barron of 
Watertown. They lived in Concord, where he died July 
13, 1754; she died March 21, 1760. Five children born in 
Concord. Benjamin Barron, the husband of Elizabeth, was 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 59 

a brother of Ellis Barron of Lovewell's third expedition. 
In Bond's Watertown, page 391, he is erroneously called 
Benjamin Barnard, 
iii. Susannah, born, Boston, January 9, 1687-8; died at Concord, 
December 20, 1706. 

iv. Noyes, born Watertown, August 22, 1699; Harvard University, 
1721. He was a minister and for a short time chaplain at 
Castle William. Subsequently he preached in New Jersey. 
He died before 1750. He was not married. 

v. Dorothy, born Watertown, August 18, 1700; she married at 
Sudbury, November 25, 1718, Hopestill Brown, born at 
Sudbury, August 26, 1691, son of Hopestill and Abigail 
(Haynes) Brown. They lived in Sudbury, where she died 
March 4, 1724-5. 

vi. Samuel, born, Watertown, January 9, 1701-2. He lived in 
East Sudbury, now Wayland. He was a deacon. His 
wife, Abigail, died February 15, 1759. He married, second, 
November 28, 1760, Abigail Fiske. Two children of first 
wife, Samuel and Peter, died young. The children of the 
second wife were: Abigail, born November 25, 1761, mar- 
ried Samuel Reeves of East Sudbury; Dorothy, born Feb- 
ruary 26, 1764, married Cheever Kendall and removed _ to 
Hope, Maine; Samuel, born December 28, 1767; married 
Mary Brown of Framingham. 

vii. Mary, born, Concord, October 20, 1703; married April 18, 
1727, Peter Bent, born May 17, 1703, son of Hopestill and 
Elizabeth (Brown) Bent of East Sudbury. Eleven 
children. 

1. Obadiah Perry, son of William and Anna Perry of 
Watertown; married August 21, 1667, Esther Hassell, 
born Cambridge, December 6, 1648, daughter of Richard 
Hassell. See Hassell family. They lived a few 
years in Watertown and was one of the first families 
of Dunstable. On account of the exposure during King 
Philip's War, he removed to Concord and soon after, 
to P>illcrica. It is recorded in Billerica, "February 10, 
1675-6, Obadiah Perry, belonging to Dunstable towne, 
now resident at Concord, but being inforced to remove 
from thence and not accounting it safe at y e present 
to remove to his owne at Dunstable, desiring at pres- 
ent to hire a house at Billerica, the selectmen, consider- 
ing his condition, do grant him liberty to hire in this 
towne." 

He returned to Dunstable before 1680, and was there 
killed by the Indians, September 28, 1691. "Obadiah 
Perry and Christopher Temple dyed by the hand of our 
Indian enemies, September, the twenty eighth day in 
the morning." His widow, Esther, married second, 



60 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

August 30, 1693, Martin Townsend of Watertown. He 
died 1698. 

Record is found of six children of Obadiah and 
Esther (Hassell) Perry. 

i. Obadiah, born, Watertown, October 11, 1669. 

ii. Ebenezer, born, Watertown, November 20, 1671. 

iii. Esther, born, Watertown, August 11, 1674; married at Con- 
cord, May 11, 1692, to William Harwood. (See Harwood 
family.) 

iv. Samuel, born, Billerica, July 19, 1677; died November 25, 
1677. 

v. John, born, Dunstable, January 31, 1682. 

vi. Elizabeth, born, Dunstable, April 7, 1683. 

Christopher Read, the tanner, lived in Dunstable a few 
years. If his residence here was brief, his name is firm- 
ly written into the early annals of the settlement. He 
was a selectman, was appointed on many committees 
and his signature appears on the petitions of his time. 
In 1672, he was a tanner of Boston, and was taxed in 
1674 and presumably in other years. His wife, Kath- 
arine, was admitted to the Old South Church in 1673. 
In 1674, he removed to Cambridge and the same year 
he bought a homestead there. He was chosen a con- 
stable of Cambridge, November 12, 1677, collector Jan- 
uary 13, 1678-9, surveyor November 12, 1683, tithing- 
man March 17, 1683-4. He sold his homestead in 
Cambridge, June 20, 1685, and the same year removed 
to Dunstable, where he and John Lovewell, senior, were 
tanners. During the troublous times of King William's 
War, he removed from Dunstable to Boston, where he 
died 1696. Administration was granted to his widow, 
Katherine, September 3, 1696, and in the inventory of 
his estate was a house and land in Dunstable, under 
mortgage to Peter Town of Cambridge. In 1710, on 
the petition of Elizabeth Whiting, who says she is 
the wife of Samuel Whiting of Dunstable and the only 
child of Christopher Read, deceased, Col. Joseph Var- 
num of Dracut was appointed administrator to sell two 
hundred acres of land in Dracut, belonging to estate 
of the late Christopher Read. 

Katherine, widow of Christopher Read, married 
second, William Green of Groton. The intention of 
marriage, in Boston, November 19, 1696. In 1710 she 
was deceased. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 61 

i. Elizabeth, married in Dunstable, January 27, 1686-7, Samuel 
Whiting, see. 

Thomas Read, a tailor of Chelmsford was born about 
1656 ; parentage unknown. He was not a son of Obadiah 
and Anna Read, as stated in Read Genealogy, 1861. 
He was a freeman, April 1, 1679, and a soldier in King 
Philip's War, 1676. He married, probably in 1679, 
Hannah Blanchard, daughter of Dea. John and Eliz- 
abeth (Hills) Blanchard, see. On the warrant of 
warning or caution against settlement in Chelmsford 
issued "Tune 10, 1679, under date of June 14, 1679, the 
constable made a return: "Thomas Read and Hannah 
Read, his wife, is fled away out of our town we know 
not whither," and a second return dated September 27, 
1679, the constable says: "Thomas Rade and hanna 
Blanchar are run away out of this county and I am 
informed they are gone to the southward." If he lived 
elsewhere a number of years it is certain that he re- 
turned to Chelmsford. In 1717, he sold to Joseph 
Blanchard of Dunstable the land willed to his wife, Han- 
nah, by her grandfather, Joseph Hills, and by her father, 
Dea. John Blanchard. In 1725, the selectmen of Chelms- 
ford petition the General Court, saying Thomas Blanch- 
ard "an ancient and infirm man" had petitioned the town 
for assistance and that his sons John, Thomas, William 
and Jonathan, who were able, had refused to assist him. 
Very probably Thomas and Hannah (Blanchard) Read 
had more children than are named in this register. 

i. John, born 1685; married January 10, 1706, Jane Chamberlain; 
lived in Westford, where ten children were born. 

ii. Thomas, born 1687; married March 14, 1709-10, Sarah 
Fletcher; lived in Westford, where he died December 24, 
1773. He was prosperous and respected. Of their children, 
Timothy is named hereafter. The late Elbridge Gerry 
Reed is a descendant. 

iii. William, married Hannah Bates of Chelmsford. He lived 
in Westford. His son, Robert, born December 25, 1720, 
married May 11, 1743, Mary Abbot of Andover, and was a 
leading citizen of Litchfield and Amherst. His second son, 
William, born February 25, 1724-5, married Lucy Spald- 
ing. He settled in the north part of Litchfield. He was 
an ensign in Col. Gilman's regiment, 1755, and was com- 
missioned a captain soon after. He established a ferry 
between Litchfield and Merrimack, about 1728, known as 
"Read's Ferry." He died 1768, being killed at the raising 
of a building. In 1789, the legislature made a grant of 
a ferry to his son, William Read. 



62 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

iv. Jonathan, married Margaret. Two children born in West- 
ford. 

v. Bentamin, born October 23, 1698; died in Westford, April 2, 
1778. 

2. Timothy Read, son of Thomas and Sarah (Fletcher) 
Read, born in Westford, March 21, 1714. He married 
November 10, 1732, Mary Cummings, born July 5, 1708, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Adams) Cummings. 
He removed to Groton. His homestead was in Joint 
Grass district which in 1753 was annexed to Dunstable, 
Mass. His wife died November 3, 1778; he died April 
26, 1799. Six children. 

i. Elizabeth, born Westford, February 2, 1732-3. 
ii. Mary, born, Westford, February 22, 1734-5. 

iii. Timothy, born, Westford, August 30, 1736; married Susannah 
Perham. Lived in Dunstable, Mass. Their children were 
Susannah, Sybel, Timothy, Isaac, Mary, Rebecca, Catherine. 
William, James, and Sybel. 

iv. Catherine, born, Groton, May 1, 1738. 

v. Martha, born, Groton, May 9, 1742; died January 20, 1758. 

vi. Eleazer, born, Groton, _ February, 1749; married January 1, 
1771, Rachel Cummings. He died in Dunstable, Mass., 
August 10, 1811. She died February 28, 1828, aged 87. 
Children : Rachel, Rhoda, Caleb, Leonard, Rebecca, and 
Betty. 

1. Lieut. Jonathan Robbins, son of George and Alice Rob- 
bins, was born in Chelmsford, November 19, 1686. He 
was a brother of Lieut. Eleazer Robbins of Groton 
and Harvard. He came from Chelmsford to Dunstable 
about 1708, and soon purchased land and settled at 
Long Hill. He was one of the petitioners for leave to 
organize an independent company to scout against the 
Indians and was commissioned a lieutenant. He served 
under Capt. Lovewell in the three memorable expedi- 
tions. Early in the engagement May 8, 1725, he was 
mortally wounded and died on the field of battle. 
Lieut. Jonathan Robbins married at Concord, January 
16, 1711-12, Margaret Lund, a daughter of Thomas 
Lund of Dunstable. In the record of marriage they are 
styled "of Dunstable." The same day at Concord, 
Thomas Lund of Dunstable, a brother of Margaret, 
married Elizabeth Taylor of Concord. See Lund family. 
Margaret (Lund) Robbins married, second, 1729, Wil- 
liam Shattuck, born 1689, son of William and Hannah 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 



63 



(Underwood) Shattuck. They lived at Groton, where 
he died in August, 1754. She died June 13, 1764. 
Five children of Lieut. Jonathan and Margaret Robbins, 
born at Dunstable. 

Three children of William and Margaret Shattuck 
born in Groton. 

i Jane, born December 26, 1712; married at Groton, April 
14, 1731, Stephen Ames, born at Boxford, September 1, 
1712, son of John and Priscilla (Kimball) Ames. The 
Ames family removed to Groton in 1717, and there John 
Ames, the father, was killed by the Indians, July 24, 1726. 
Stephen Ames lived in Groton until 1740, when he re- 
moved to Hollis. Three children were born in Groton 
and four in Hollis. 

ii. Margaret, born February 29, 1715. 

iii. Jonathan, born November 4, 1718. 

iv. Eleanor, born June 8, 1721; married James Whitney, born 
1714, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Burge) Whitney. They 
lived in Dunstable where he died, 1755. A daughter, 
Eleanor, born July 23, 1740, married Frances Pollard; a 
son, James, born November 4, 1742, married Sarah Lund. 

v. Elizabeth, born September 20, 1723. 

vi. Ezekiel Shattuck, born, Groton, June 12, 1730, a soldier in 
the French and Indian War, he died in the service, 1758. 

vii. Margaret Shattuck, born July 4, 1732; married May 26, 1752, 
Joseph Bennett, born December 15, 1725, son of Benjamin 
and Mary (Lakin) Bennett. He died soon, and their only 
child died in infancy. She married, second, January 24, 
1759, Joseph Metcalf. He was a soldier in the French and 
Indian War. He lived in Groton until 1770, when he re- 
moved to Ashburnham, where he died March 19, 1793. She 
died June 20, 1802. They were worthy and esteemed and 
their descendants are capable and useful. Nine children. 

viii. Job Shattuck, born February 11, 1736. He was a soldier in 
the French and Indian War. In the Revolution he was 
engaged at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Subsequently 
he was commissioned a captain, serving with zeal and 
marked ability in 1776, 1777, and 1779. He was involved 
in Shays' rebellion and had the courage and ability to 
become conspicuous. He was arrested, tried and sentenced 
to be hanged. His unblemished character and his former 
good service to his town and to the state could not be set 
aside and he was pardoned. Subsequently he enjoyed 
the confidence and respect of his townsmen. Job Shattuck 
married May 25, 1758, Sarah Hartwell, born at Groton, 
March 19, 1738, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Holden) 
Hartwell. She died, May 5, 1798. He married, second, 
May 26, 1800, Elizabeth (Lakin) Gragg, daughter of 
William and Miriam (Erwin) Lakin and widow of John 
Gragg of Groton. He died in Groton, January 13, 1819. 
His widow died June 1, 1824. Of Job and Sarah (Hart- 
well) Shattuck there were nine children. 



64 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

1. Samuel Searles, son of Col. Daniel and Deliverance 

(Tyng) Searles, was born at Boston, October 16, 1668. 
His father, Col. Daniel Searles, was well connected in 
Boston and prominent in public affairs. He was Gov- 
ernor of Barbadoes, 1652-1660, and there he resided 
many years. His mother was a daughter of Hon. Edward 
and a sister of Hon. Jonathan Tyng. Samuel Searles 
came to Dunstable before 1699, and it is probable that 
in his youth he had a home with his uncle, Jonathan 
Tyng. He was one of the foremost men of the town 
and was actively engaged in the land speculations of 
his time. He died before 1737. He married September 
26, 1699, Sarah Pcrham. Widow Sarah Searles was 
taxed 1738. 

Sarah, born October 20, 1700. 
Deliverance, born January 10, 1702. 
Samuel, born March 1, 1707. 
Mary, born October 10, 1710. 
Daniel born July 17, 1715. 
John, born October 11, 1717. 
vii. Jonathan, born September 5, 1720. 

2. Samuel Searles, son of Samuel, born March 1, 1707. 

He married January 17, 1737, Mary Butterfield, born 
1711, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Butterfield. He 
lived in Dunstable. His wife died October 24, 1754. 
He died January 8, 1758. 

6. i. Samuel, born September 2, 1738. 

ii. Benjamin, born September 4, 1740; died January 27, 1756. 
iii. Mary, born January 10, 1744. 

3. Daniel Searles, son of Samuel, born Dunstable, July 

17, 1715. He lived in Dunstable, where four or more 
children were born. His wife was Mary. 

i. Oliver, born August 20, 1736; died September 8, 1738. 

ii. James, born November 17, 1738. 

iii. Rachel, born March 1, 1746. 

iv. Lucy, born March 10, 1754. 

4. John Searles, son of Samuel, born Dunstable, October 

11, 1717. He lived in Dunstable. The birth of five 
children is on record. 





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ii. 


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iii. 




iv. 


3. 


v. 


4. 


vi. 


5. 


vii. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 65 

i. Lucy, born March 10, 1754 ; died February 7, 1774. 

ii. Sarah, born October 10, 1757. 

iii. Esther, born July 16, 1760. 

iv. Lydia, born October 29, 1762. 

v. Jotham. born May 8, 1765, see History of Francestown. 

Jonathan Searles, son of Samuel, born September 21, 
1720. He married at Westford, October 12, 1748,' 
Thankful Bixby, born 1725, daughter of David and Abi- 
gail Rixby. He settled in Hudson. He died 1786. 

i. Thankful, born May 23, 1750. 

ii. Jonathan, born April 11, 1752. 

iii. Thomas, born August 28, 1754. 

iv. Jacob, born April 15, 1757. 

v. Elihu, born September 28, 1759. 

vi. Elnathan, born March 26, 1763. 

vii. Lydia, born July 1, 1765. 

Samuel Searles, son of Samuel, Jr., born September 2, 
1738. He lived in Dunstable; married 1759, Elizabeth. 
He died about 1786. His wife survived him. 

i. Cate, born April 16, 1760. 

ii. Elizabeth, born January 13, 1762. 

iii. Samuel, born April 23, 1764. 

iv. Benjamin, born February 22, 1766. 

v. James, born July 28, 1767. 

vi. Henry Adams, born March 27, 1769. 

vii. Katherine, born February 25, 1774. 

Benjamin Smith in 1731 petitioned the General Court of 
Massachusetts for the two islands in the Merrimack 
river and for land on the west bank of the river opposite 
the islands. The General Court, June 20, 1733 "in con- 
sideration of his great services for the province in 
divers marches against the Indian enemy" and because 
"he has presumed to take up about sixteen acres partly 
on an island about a mile above Souhegan river and 
partly on the main land adjacent thereto and has built 
a house thereon" granted him the two islands and suffi- 
cient land on the west bank of the Merrimack river to 
make fifty acres. See N. H. State Papers, Vol. XXIV, 
page 13. Bedford originally called Narragansett No. 5] 



66 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

was granted February 12, 1733-4. The original grant, 
extending south to the Souhegan river, included the 
north half of the present town of Merrimack, and al- 
lowance was made in the grant for the farm of Benja- 
min Smith, which was situated within the township. 
He was chosen by the proprietors of Bedford, January 
25, 1738, one of a committee to lay a road between the 
first and second range of lots, and October 19, 1743, Col. 
John Goffe, Moses Barron and Benjamin Smith were 
instructed to perambulate the town lines. 

He was the first settler in that vicinity but the exact 
date of his arrival cannot be stated. Dating from the 
grant of Bedford, which included his grant, he had lived 
in that town sixteen years when the southern part of 
Bedford, including his grant, was annexed to Mer- 
rimack. In present terms the grant to Benjamin Smith 
was at Reed's Ferry, and the two islands in the river 
are now of the same contour and area as they were in 
1731. 

Benjamin Smith died in 1750. The inventory of his 
estate is dated October 14, 1750, the amount of his 
real and personal property was above the average of 
his time. Among the one hundred and thirty-two items 
of inventory are included lands, buildings, a ferry boat, 
Indian corn, English grain, hay, horses, oxen, cows, 
young cattle, guns, traps, linen wheels, feather beds and 
all the appointments of a farm and a well furnished 
home. 

Benjamin Smith probably was married when he 
settled at Reed's Ferry in Merrimack, before 1731, but 
a record of his marriage and of his children, if any by 
a first marriage, has not been discovered. He married 
soon after 1728, Mrs. Hannah Lovewell, widow of Capt. 
John Lovewell, the hero of Pigwacket. To them one 
child, Elizabeth, was born in Bedford, April 10, 1744. 

Thus Benjamin Smith became the step-father of, 
and under his parental care were reared, the three 
children of Capt. John and Hannah Lovewell. In 
March, 1751, Samuel Wadsworth, clerk of the pro- 
prietors of Bedford, made a list of the improved lots of 
the township, including the part of Merrimack lying 
north of Souhegan river. Among the occupants of 
farms named in the list is found the name of "Widow 
Smith once Capt. lovels widow" The date of her death 
is not known. Fox's Dunstable says she died January 
5, 1754, but it was the mother, not the widow of Capt. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 67 

John Lovewell, who died January 5, 1754. There was 
a Dea. Benjamin Smith, a younger man, who came from. 
Londonderry to Bedford about 1745, and died there 
1812, but there was no connection between the two 
men of the same name. 

.. Ambrose Swallow, the ancestor of the Swallow families 
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, was an early 
resident of Chelmsford. He married December 2, 1668, 
Mary Martin. In the return of the marriage to the 
county his name is written Ambrose fearlon. This 
very probably is an error in transcribing. His name is 
uniformly written Ambrose Swallow in the records of 
Chelmsford and in probate record. He died in Chelms- 
ford, October 25, 1684. His wife, Mary, married, 
second, Samuel Warner of Dunstable, see. 

The inventory of his estate, dated November 3, 1684, 
amounts to £230-17-6, and includes "His homelott with- 
in fence with orchard & housing on same; His old field 
and land adjoining; His meadow Billerica bounds; His 
Spring meadow & upland adjacent; 5 cows, 2 oxen, 1 
heifer, 2 calves, 1 horse, 18 swine, 2 bibles & other 
books, arms, ammunition, 5 Bbls Cyder, flax, hemp, 
yarn, & Tobacco &c." 

In the inventory it is stated that Ambrose Swallow 
died October 20, 1684. In town records the date of his 
death is October 25, 1684. 

Four children of Ambrose and Mary Martin Swallow: 

2. i. Ambrose, born September 8, 1669. 

3. ii. John, born November 19. 1671. 

4. iii. Joseph, born March 16, 1679. 

5. iv. Benjamin, born November 9, 1683. 

. Ambrose Swallow, son of Ambrose, born in Chelmsford, 
September 8, 1669. He lived in Chelmsford. He mar- 
ried, December 8, 1696, Sarah Barrett, probably a 
daughter of John and Sarah Barrett. He died April 
19, 1720. Land in the second division was granted, 
January 12, 1720-1, to Sarah Swallow in the right of 
Ambrose Swallow, deceased. She died November 22, 
1756. Six children. 

i. Sarah, born July 23, 1698. 

ii. Mary, born February 8, 1700; died May 25, 1716. 

iii. Hannah, born January 18, 1703. 



68 Tliirty Dunstable Families. 

6. iv. Jonathan, born September 11, 1706. 

7. v. John, born August 2, 1709. 

8. vi. Joseph, born June 21, 1714. 

3. John Swallow, son of Ambrose, born November 19, 

1671. He married January 3, 1693, Anna Barrett, born 
December 17, 1668, daughter of Thomas and Frances 
(Woolderson) Barrett of Chelmsford. Thomas Barrett 
with consent of Mary, a second wife, for love and af- 
fection, July 8, 1700, conveys to his son, John Swallow, 
a house and thirty acres of upland and meadow. Anna, 
wife of John Swallow, died in Chelmsford, May 10, 1735. 
He died May 27, 1756.. 

4. Joseph Swallow, son of Ambrose, born March 19, 1679. 

He was a wheelwright and early in life he settled in 
Reading, Mass. He married 1713, Abigail Upton, born 
1697, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Upton. His 
homestead was in the part of the town now North Read- 
ing, where he died 1755. By will he gives his estate, 
real and personal, to his wife, Abigail. She died 1781. 
Her will is dated May 29, 1781. "For his faithfulness 
and friendship," she gives to "Stephen Buxton, Jr., with 
whom I reside"; other bequests are made to Phebe, 
wife of Stephen Buxton, Jr.. to Sarah Graves, to her 
sister, Mehitable (Upton) Wilkins, wife of Hezekiah 
Wilkins and to Mary Buxton and Dorcas Upton. 

5. Benjamin Swallow, son of Ambrose, born in Chelms- 

ford, November 9, 1683. He was an infant when his 
widowed mother married Samuel Warner of Dunstable. 
He settled in Groton, where he purchased several tracts 
of land, the deeds bearing dates from 1729 to 1758. His 
homestead was in the north part of the town. In 1739, 
he was one of the petitioners for a new town to include a 
part of Groton and a part of Dunstable, and in 1742, 
he joined with others for a division of Groton. This 
discussion culminated in the erection of the West Par- 
rish, now Pepperell. He was the moderator of the first 
meeting of the parish and one of the prudential com- 
mittee. He married in Concord, May 21. 1707, Eliza- 
beth (Blood) Williams, born in Groton, October 7, 
1673, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Parker) 
Blood and widow of Thomas Williams. He married, 
second, November 20, 1746, Widow Hannah Green. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 69 

Hannah Swallow, wife of Benjamin Swallow, buys 
sixteen acres in Pepperell, September 30, 1754. No 
record of children is found. 

February 19, 1720, Benjamin Swallow and wife, Eliz- 
abeth, convey to "our dutiful son Isaac Williams all the 
real estate in Middlesex county devised to said Eliza- 
beth as one of the grandchildren of Capt. James Park- 
er, deceased." 

November 23, 1744, Benjamin Swallow and Isaac 
Williams convey to Jason Williams, Jr., and John Wil- 
liams, certain lands in Groton and all rights in Groton 
Commons of Thomas Williams' wife and children, 
except those laid out to heirs of Thomas Williams, 
2d, late deceased and one-fifth of the commons now due 
to Thomas Williams' wife and children. 

6. Jonathan Swallow, son of Ambrose, Jr., born in Chelms- 

ford, September 11, 1706. He was a blacksmith in 
Chelmsford. December 30, 1730 he bought of John 
Corey, a house and forty acres. His wife, Hannah, died 
March 16, 1770. Seven children. 

i. Elizabeth, born July 29, 1729; married April 10, 1755, Ben- 
jamin Wood. 

ii. Hannah, born February 11, 1730-1; married January 7, 1754, 
Samuel Wilson. 

iii. Jonathan, born May 7, 1734; died September 27, 1741. 

iv. Mary, born November 11, 1736. 

v. Jonathan, born March 24, 1739-40. 

vi. Phebe, born August 9, 1742; married October 4, 1764, David 
Parker, born June 3, 1745, son of Benjamin and Mary 
(Corey) Parker of Billerica. 

vii. Ephraim, born June 13, 1745; died September 30, 1749. 

7. John Swallow, son of Ambrose, Jr., born August 2, 

1709. He settled in the north part of Groton. In 1753, 
his farm and other lands were annexed to Dunstable, 
Mass. He united with the church of Groton, October 
29, 1732, and he and his wife, Sarah, were foundation 
members of the church of Dunstable, which was em- 
bodied May 12, 1757. He married Deborah, who was 
the mother of John and Amaziah. He married, second, 
Sarah Nutting, born, Groton, February 22, 1714-5, 
daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Green) Nutting. She 
was the mother of eight children. I have not found 
a record of either marriage. He died in Dunstable, 



70 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

February 15, 1776. His widow, Sarah, died January 20, 
1799. 

9. i. John, horn February 22, 1729-30. 

10. ii. Amaziah, born November 22, 1732. 

iii. Benjamin, born October 21, 1736; married March 5, 1767, 
Joanna Spalding, born in Westford, April 7, 1738, daughter 
of Andrew and Hannah Spalding, They lived in Dunstable, 
Mass. He was a soldier in the Revolution, lie died Jan- 
nary 11. 1821. His wife died November 22, 1820. They 
3, 1775; Joanna, born September 22, 1781, and a son, 
had David, born November 5, 1771; Joanna, born January 
Samson, who lived several years, at least, in Dunstable. 
Two daughters of Samson were wives of Ira Spalding of 
Clinton, Maine. 

iv. SARAH, born November 25, 1741. 

11. v. Pktf.r, born October 9, 1743. 

vi. Mary, born February 2S, 1746. 

v ii. DEBORAH, born February 9, 1748; married December 14, 17(>°, 
David Woods, born Groton, December .51, 1746, son of 
John and Sarah (Longley) Woods, lie died in Deering, 
N. 11.. 1793. She married, second, December 31, 17°7, 
Amos Eastman of llollis. She died March 7, 1821. He 
died August 2, 1832. 

\ iii. Elizabeth, born December 17, 1750; married March 12, 
1772, Samuel Roby. He died November 3, 17 ,)l) ; she died 
October I 1 ', 1812. ' Six children. 

ix. Hannah, born January 17, 1754. 

x. Jonathan, born June 22. 1757; married at Westford, March 
IS, 1788, Jemima Wilson. He lived in Groton and in 
Dunstable, Mass. Their children were: Alice; Lucinda; 
Jonathan, born February 18, 1793; Clarinda, born IS, 1795; 
Sophronia, born January 30, 17 t>l) ; John Wilson, born 
April IS. 1803; Sarah, born September 3, 1S06. 

8. Joseph Swali ow, son of Ambrose, Jr., born June 21, 1714. 
lie lived in Dunstable, lie was an active man and a 
useful citizen, ami was one of those who joined with 
the Blanchards in opposition to the settlement of Rev. 
Samuel Bird. lie married Susannah Sanderson, who 
died about 1748. lie married, second, 1751, Esther 
Robbins of Westford. 

One child of the first and five of the second wife. 

i. Joseph, horn August 6, 1746. 

ii. Thomas, born July 30, 1753; died young. 

iii. SlLAS, born July 25, 1754; married in Hollis, June 1(>, 1786, 
Lucy Emerson, bom October J''. 1751, daughter of Rev. 
Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson. He was a 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 71 

worthy and esteemed citizen of Dunstable. He died Feb- 
ruary 26, 1846. Their son, Joseph, born June 30, 1787; 
married Betsey Twiss. They were the parents of Rev. 
Joseph Emerson Swallow. 

iv. SUSANNAH, born March 4, 1756; married Phineas Whitney. 

v. Esther, born April 29, 1759; married November 17, 17 ( '(>, 
Jeremiah Hunt, born April 8, 1759, son of William and 
Mary (Hardy) Hunt. 

vi Thomas, born August 1, 1760. 

John Swallow, son of John, horn Groton, Fehrnary 22, 
1729-30. He lived in Mason, N. IT., where he died 
November 23, 1815. lie married November 19, 1755, 
Sarah Lawrence, who died December 28, 1763. He 
married, second, December 11, 1765, Mary Hall, born 
March 9, 1746, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Chap- 
man) Hall of Mason. She died August 14, 1822. Four 
children of first and eleven of second wife, born in 
Mason. 

i. John, born January 3, 1757; married Rebecca Dunster, born 
June 18, 1756, daughter of Jason and Rebecca (Cutter) 

Dunster. He lived in Mason. He died in January, L830. 
His wife died, August 3, 1811. Seven children. 

ii. Sarah, born October 2, 1758. 

iii. LvniA, born October 31, 1760. 

iv. DEBORAH, born November 15, 1762; married March 27, 1785, 
Noah Winship. 

v. Mollis, born December 14, 1766; married October 22, 1786, 
Samuel Green. 

vi. Abel, born May 31, 1768; married October 21, 1794, Rachel 
Spalding. Lived in Groton. 

vii. Joel, born May 14, 1770. 

viii. Sybel, born April 6, 1772; married January 14, 1799, Josiah 
Winship 

ix. Eunice, born July 3, 1774; died December 3, 1774. 

x. Eunice, born December 1, 1775; married December 27, 1798, 
Ezra Newell. 

xi. Daniel, born July 3, 1778. He was of Groton, 1799. 

xii. Azubah, born August 7, 1780; married December 23, 1810, 
Samuel Withington. 

xiii. Rhoda, born June 17, 1783; married September 3, 1809, Elijah 
Knapp. 

xiv. Betsey, born February 18, 1786; married November 18, 1817, 
Artcmas Rowell. 

xv. Dorcas, born July 2, 1788; married April 22, 1816, Francis 
1 luniphries. 



72 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

10. Lieut. Amaziaii Swallow, son of John, born November 

22, 1732. He was a lieutenant of the Revolution and 
an officer of the militia. He lived in Groton and in 
Dunstable. His homestead was severed from Groton 
and annexed to Dunstable, February 25, 1793. He was 
a respected citizen. He died in Dunstable, Mass., Jan- 
uary 21, 1803. He married in Billerica, June 19, 1759, 
Elizabeth Kendall, born February 14, 1739, died Decem- 
ber 9, 1784. He married, second, February 16, 1786, 
Mary (Taylor) Woods, born January 17, 1749-50 
daughter of Samuel and Susannah (Perham) Taylor and 
widow of Capt. Solomon Woods. She died February 15, 
1828. Nine children of the first and one of the second 
wife. 

i. Elizabeth, born May 18, 1760; married June 25, 1789, Lieut. 
John Cheney. 

ii. Rebecca, born December 4, 1763; died August 17, 1765. 

iii. Ruth, born July 22, 1765; married September 13, 1785, Isaac 
Kendall. 

12. iv. Asa, born May 1, 1767. 

v. Rebecca, born April 24, 1768; married September 25, 1789, 
Jeremiah Cummings. Eight children. 

13. vi. Abraham, born December 14, 1770. 

vii. Deborah, born December 14, 1773; died October 18, 1778. 

viii. Kendall, born April 2, 1775; died October 25, 1778. 

ix. Mary, born November 30, 1777; died November 7, 1798. 

14. x. Amaziah, born 1787. 

11. Peter Swallow, son of John, born October 9, 1743; mar- 

ried in Groton, February 8, 1770, Prudence Stiles, born 
at Lunenburg, April 3, 1747, daughter of Jacob and 
Sarah (Hartwell) Stiles. She died at Dunstable, March 
20, 1780. He married, second, Sybel Blood. He was 
a soldier in the Revolution. He lived in Dunstable, 
Mass. He died April 7, 1813. Five children of first 
and five of second wife. 

i. Nahum, born June 23, 1771; married December 22, 1796, 
Diademia Woods, born at Groton, October 28, 1778, 
daughter of Capt. Solomon and Mary (Taylor) Woods. 
He removed to Windsor, Vt, where he died January 15, 
1851; Diademia died at Whitehall, Illinois, September 5, 
1858. Eleven of their fifteen children removed to Illinois 
and Michigan. 

ii. Prudence, born July 26, 1773; married November 22, 1792, 
Temple Kendall, born Dunstable, Mass., May 28, 1768, son 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 73 

of Temple and Abigail Kendall. He died August 20, 1850. 
She died January 6, 1868. Fourteen children. 

iii. Larned, born July 30, 1775; died 1776. 

iv. Larned, born June 18, 1777; married Olive Fletcher Proctor. 
Removed to'Buckfield, Maine. Fifteen children. 

v. Sarah, born February 17, 1780. 

vi. Archelaus, born January 10, 1784; married Susanna Kendall. 
He lived on the paternal homestead. Six children. 

vii. James, born October 23, 1785. 

viii. Lucy, born November 10, 1787. 

ix. Moody, born November 5, 1789. 

x. Abijah, born August 19, 1792. 

12. Asa Swallow, son of Capt. Amaziah, born May 1, 1767. 

Married in Peppered, June 29, 1791, Susannah Kendall, 
who died, leaving one son, 1792; he married, second, 
January 16, 1794, Susannah Woods, born November 12, 
1772, daughter of Capt. Solomon and Mary (Taylor) 
Woods. He lived in Dunstable, Mass. He died Feb- 
ruary 15, 1813; she died April 27, 1848. Seven children. 

i. Kendall, born June 14, 1792. 

ii. Susannah, born September 23, 1794. 

iii. Asa. born April 3, 1796. 

iv. Laura, born July 25, 1798. 

v. Ruel, born October 11, 1801. 

vi. Eera. born April 10, 1806. 

vii. Maria, born January 6, 1811. 

13. Abraham Swallow, son of Lieut. Amaziah, born Decem- 

ber 14, 1770; married December 23, 1790, Anna Blod- 
gett. He lived in Dunstable, Mass. He was a town 
officer and a captain in the militia. 

i. Rhoda, born September 30, 1791. 

ii. Abraham, born January 19, 1795. 

iii. Mary, born May 20, 1797. 

iv. Calvin, born April 20, 1799. 

v. Luther, born May 18, 1801. 

vi. Sarah, born August 31, 1803. 

14. Capt. Amaziait Swallow, son of Lieut. Amaziah, born 

1787. He married January 18, 1810, Asenath Cum- 
mings, born July 26, 1788, daughter of Simeon and 



71 Thirty Dunstable Families, 

Sarali CummingS. He was a captain in the militia and 
an intelligent, useful citizen. He died October 6, 1857. 
Mis widow died October 30, 1865. Six children. 

i. Ai.mika. born December 23, 1810; married Andrew Sawtelle. 

ii. Asi.NAiu. born September 13, 1812; married April 1, L833, 
Thomas Parker. 

iii. SARAH CUMMINGS, born September 7, 1815; married August 
19, 1834, Allien Gallatin Page, born March 13, 1814, son 
of Edmund and Betsey (Dwight) Page of Dunstable. 
Mr. Page lived In Fitchburg, Mass. lie was active in 
business and was one of the founders of the Whitman and 
Barnes Manufacturing Company, now of Akron, Ohio. 
lie died March 27, 1871. Frank Dwighl Page, city auditor 
of Fitchburg is a son of Albert G., and Sarah (Swallow) 

Page. 

iv. Amaziah Newton, born May 5, 1820; married June 23, 
1852, Rebecca P. Proctor. Ho was a grocer of Charles- 
town, Mass. 

v. Aibert Orson, bom December 12, 1822; died October 18, 1826. 

vi. Albert Josiah, bom June 13, 1828; died December 7, 1850. 

1. Abraham Taylor, sfcn of Abraham and Mary (Whitaker) 
Taylor and grandson of William Taylor of Concord, 
was born in Concord, January 11, 1682-3. He married 
December l) . 1706, Sarah relict, born in Concord, Sep- 
tember 5, 1685, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pane) 
Pellet, lie lived in Concord until 1710, and there two 
sons were born. II is wife, Sarah, died aboul the date 

of his removal to Dunstable. His second wife was 
Marv. but a record of the marriage is not found. He 
was a man of good character and a worthy citizen. 
1 1 is children were : 

i. ABRAHAM, bom at Concord, April -1, 1707. He lived in Hollis 
and was a potent factor in the organization of the town, 
lie gave the land for the meetinghouse, common and 
cemetery, lie died June 3, 1743. lie bad sons, Leonard 
and Abraham, and daughters, Lydia, Olive, Sarah and 
Submit. 

2. ii. Sam ill., born at Concord, October 1, 1708. 

iii. Joseph, baptized at Dunstable, September 13, 1716, by Rev 
Caleb Trowbridge of Groton. 

.* iv TIMOTHY, born September 1, 1718. 

\ Alice, bom April 15, 1720; married about 1750, bbene.vr 
Butterfield, bom July 13, 170<>, son of Samuel and Rachel 
(Spalding) Butterfield. It was bis second marriage. 

vi Amos, born September 10, 1725; married May 21, 1747, 
Bridget Martin. He lived in Dunstable, in New [pswich 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 75 

and in Mollis, removing to Brookline in 1772. He or his 
son, Amos, was a soldier of ('apt. Reuben Dow's company 
of Col. Prescott's regimenl al Bunker Hill and siege oi 
Boston, 1775. In 1776, he removed to Stoddard. He 
had six or more children. Amos, born ai Dunstable, 
September 7, 174X; Edmund, born at Dunstable, May 4, 
1750, he settled in Cavendish, Vermont; Ephraim, not 
married, lived with the Harvard Shakers several years; 
Bridget, Abraham, Isaac. 

SAMUEL TAYLOR, son of Abraham, was born at Concord, 
( Ictober 1, 1708. En bis infancy the family removed to 
Dunstable, lie lived in the southern pari of the town- 
ship, now Dunstable, Massachusetts, lie was a man 
of good works, a useful citizen and for thirty-five years a 
deacon of the church. Me died October 23, 1792. He 
married Susannah L'erham, who died October 14, 1798. 
Eleven children. 

i. Samuel, born October 13, 1734. lie was a soldier in the 
French and Indian War and died at Lake George, Novetn 
ber 18, 1755. 

ii. Reuben, born March 8, 1735-6; married Lucy Boutelle and 
settled in New Ipswich. 

iii. Susannah, born November 28, 1737. 

iv. Jonas, born November 30, 1739. 

v. Lucy, born April 4, 1742; married February 9, 1764, Jonathan 
Fletcher, born March 30, 1741, son of Joseph and Eliza- 
beth (Underwood) Fletcher of Dunstable. M<' was a 
a captain in tin- militia, 17<S1. lie died in Dunstable, 
Mass., March 30, 1813. She died July 17, 1801. Twelve 
children. 

vi. THADDEUSj horn April 10, 1744; married Bridget Walton, 
born in Reading, Mass., May 29, 1746, daughter of John 
and Martha (Burnap) Walton. He removed from Dun- 
stable to New [pswich, where he died 1X25. lie is the 
ancestor of a numerous and worthy family. One of his 
sons was Oliver Swain Taylor, born December 17, 17X4, 
Dartmouth College, 1809, preceptor, New [pswich Apple 
ton Academy and subsequently a physician of Auburn, 
New York. 

vii Oliver, horn June 1, 1746; married July 16, 1767, Bridgel 
Blodgett, horn December 31, 1746, daughter of Josiah and 
leinima (Nutting) Blodgett of Dunstable. Mis wife died 
January 15, 1794, He married, second, December 30, 17 ( M, 
Abigail Richardson, born, Temple, June 14, 1775, daughter 
"I" Thomas and Abigail Richardson. He died October 13, 
1823. Abigail, bis widow, died January 19, 1839. Eighl 

children by first and Iwo by second marriage. 

viii. Rachel, horn May 11, 174X; died February 17, 1754. 
ix. Marv, born January 17, 1749. 



76 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

x. Isaac, born January 13, 1753; married November 21, 1776, 
Sarah Parkhurst, who died March 10, 1813. He married, 
second, 1814, Lucy Hill, born in Billerica, January 14, 
1756, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Lane) Hill. She 
died February 5, 1832. 

xi. Samuel, born March 20, 1756; married 1777, Ruth Parker, 
born in Groton, October 18, 1757, daughter of William 
and Ruth (Boynton) Parker. He removed to Milford; 
where he resided twenty-five years. He returned to Dun- 
stable, Mass., and there died January 9, 1841. His wife 
died December 30, 1837. Eight children. 

xii. William, born November 9, 1759; died May 6, 1771. 

3. Timothy Taylor, son of Abraham, was born at Dun- 

stable, September 1, 1718. He married Rachel Con- 
verse, born in Merrimack, April 30, 1730, daughter of 
Joshua and Rachel (Blanchard) Converse. He lived in 
Merrimack; was a selectman and a prominent citizen. 
They had seven children born in Merrimack. 

i. Mary, born December 14, 1751. 

5. ii. Timothy, born September 18, 1754. 

iii. Joshua, born September 18, 1756. 

iv. Sarvia, born August 27, 1758. 

v. Eleazer, born April 17, 1760. 

vi. Abigail, born March, 1762. 

vii. Joel, born March 4, 1764. 

4. Jonas Taylor, son of Abraham, born in Dunstable, 

November 30, 1739; married Mary Danforth, born 
February 5, 1745, daughter of Lieut. Joseph and Mary 
(Richardson) Danforth. He lived in Dunstable, Mas- 
sachusetts, where he died December 15, 1823. She died 
December 5, 1813. Six children. 

i. Jonas, born 1767; died July 24, 1848; married Hannah, who 
died May 24, 1849. 

ii. Danforth, born October 30, 1769; he died in Stoddard, Jan- 
uary 4, 1858. 

iii. Mary, born May 26, 1773. 

iv. Abigail, born February 12, 1775. 

v. Abigail, born May 30, 1780. 

vi. Jacob, born January 16, 1783. 

5. Timothy Taylor, son of Timothy, was born in Merri- 

mack, September 18, 1754. He married in Merri- 
mack, February 1, 1776, Esther (French) Toothaker, 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 77 

born in Dunstable, 1754, daughter of Capt. Benjamin 
and Molley (Lovewell) French and widow of Dr. Allin 
Toothaker, a young- physician of Merrimack, who died 
July 12 1775. Timothy Taylor lived in Merrimack many 
years ; he was a selectman 1780, 1784, 1785 ; representa- 
tive 1785, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1793. He was a magistrate 
many years. In the legislature he was a useful and in- 
fluential man, and in town affairs he was a foremost citi- 
zen. He removed from Merrimack to Dunstable, 1806, 
and in 1819 to Norwalk, Ohio, where he died February 
26, 1851. His wife died July 1, 1843 
i. George Allin, born February 16, 1777. 

ii. Esther, born June 9, 1781: married December 30. 1804, 
Samuel Preston, born in New Ipswich, July 21, 1778, son 
of Dr. John and Rebecca (Farrar) Preston. Samuel 
Preston succeeded Samuel dishing in the publication of 
the Village Messenger at Amherst. In 1801, he removed 
to Dunstable and was engaged in trade about eight years. 
Subsequently he lived in Norwalk, Ohio, where he died 
March 3, 1852. His wife died September 3, 1826. One 
son, Charles Albert Preston. Their daughter, Lucy Ban- 
croft Preston, married January 15, 1835, Frederick Wick- 
ham. 

iii. Fannie, married Knight. They had one daughter, 

and sons, James, George, William and Albert. 

iv. Gilman, removed to Illinois. 

v. Benjamin, by wife, Juliette, had Catherine, Isabella, Cath- 
erine and Gilman. 

6. Jonathan Taylor, son of Abraham and Mary (Whit- 
aker) Taylor, was born in Concord, August 10, 1694. 
He removed to Dunstable about 1720. His wife, the 
mother of ten children was Hannah. A record of his 
marriage has not been discovered. He died 1748. 

i David, born January 1, 1722-3 ; married April 16, 1752, Han- 
nah Fletcher. She died October 23, 1800 ; he died Decem- 
ber 15, 1809. Five children: Hannah, born May 23, 1753; 
Sybel born April 9, 1755; Catherine, born September 3, 
1757; Olive, born November 9, 1760, married June 17, 1802, 
Capt. Josiah Cummings, born June 12, 1763, son of Oliver 
and Sybel (Bailey) Cummings. She died November 24, 
Sarah, born January 9, 1764, married January 17, 1785, 
Capt. Josiah Cummings. She died January 24, 1802. He 
died September 11, 1834. 

ii. Israel, born February 23. 1723-4; died August 24, 1724. 

iii. Jonathan, born September 8, 1725 ; died young. 

iv. Ephraim, twin, born September 8, 1725 ; died young. 



78 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

v. Hannah, born January 19, 1727-8. 

vi. Esther, born January 8, 1729-30. 

vii. Sarah, born May 14, 1732. 

viii. Nathan, born October 9, 1734. 

ix. Olive, born April 6, 1737; married, 1769, Abraham Clark of 
Town send. 

x. Samson, born December 6, 1739; died young. 

xi. Daniel. 

xii. Jason. 

xiii. Mary. 

7. John Taylor, perhaps a son of Abraham of Concord and 
brother of Abraham of Dunstable, born in Concord, 
September 8, 1685. He married in Charlestown, March 
23, 1710, Sarah Cummings, born about 1692. She is 
not found in either of the two Cummings Genealogies, 
but probate records of the estate of Ebenezer Cum- 
mings present evidence that she was his sister and a 
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Cummings. 
He settled on the east side of the Merrimack river and 
was living in a garrison when Nottingham was incor- 
porated in 1733. His homestead was one-half mile 
east of the river and one mile north of Taylor's Falls 
bridge. There is no record of his death. Six children 
were born in Dunstable. 

i. Elizabeth, born December 30, 1710; married Benjamin Has- 
sell, see. Lived in Merrimack. 

ii. Hannah, born March 29, 1713. 

iii. Sarah, born March 7, 1715. 

iv. Eunice, born October 31, 1717; married Jeremiah Carleton, 
son of Joseph and Abigail (Osgood) Carleton of New- 
bury, Mass. They lived in Litchfield and Lyndeborough. 

v. Rebecca, born August 3, 1720. 

vi. E , a son, born January 16, 1726. 

1. Severed Taylor, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Taylor, 
was born in Watertown, March 11, 1642-3. In his 
childhood his parents removed to Reading. He was a 
soldier in King Philip's War. He was one of the 
soldiers in the garrison at Groton, 1675, and he served 
in the companies commanded by Capt. Samuel Mosely, 
Capt. Joseph Sill and Capt. Nathaniel Davenport, who 
was succeeded by Capt. Edward Tyng. In the ad- 
mission of grantees of the Narraganset townships, which 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 79 

were granted to the soldiers of King Philip's War 
or to the heirs of those deceased, the right of Seabred 
Taylor, deceased, was granted to his son, Thomas, who 
became a grantee of Westminster, Mass. 

Seabred Taylor married November 21, 1671, Mary 
Harrington, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Har- 
rington of Charlestown. About 1685, he lived a short 
time in Charlestown, but soon returned to Reading, 
where he died in 1714. His widow. Mary, died May 
13, 1733. They had seven or more children. 

i. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1674-5; married in Woburn, 
December 3, 1702, Thomas Grover of Reading. 

ii. Mary, born September 26, 1676; died young. 

iii. Mary, born July 9, 1678; married in Woburn, January 8, 
1695-6, Dr. Thomas Stimpson of Reading, son of Dr. James 
Stimpson. Two of their sons were physicians. 

iv. John, born January 16, 1681-2. 

v. James, born June 20, 1688. 

vi. Thomas, born May 21, 1692; married in Reading, December 
20, 1722, Mary Goodwin. He removed to Sudbury, where 
five children were born and where his wife died June 16, 
1735. He was a grantee of Westminster, Mass., and sold 
the same August 16, 1735, to Samuel Trumbull of Charles- 
town, Mass. 

2. vii. Ebenezer, was older than Thomas and probably older than 
James. His birth is not recorded. 

2. Dr. Ebenezer Taylor, son of Seabred and Mary (Har- 
rington) Taylor, was born in Reading or Charlestown, 
Mass., about 1685. In a deed dated March 7, 1710, 
Seabred Taylor of Reading conveys certain tracts of 
land to Ebenezer Taylor "in consideration of love and 
affection Ihave and do bear unto my dutiful son, Eben- 
ezer, and in further consideration of £7, that my said 
son hath paid unto my son in law Thomas Grover and 
£, 8. that he hath paid unto my son in law Stimson." 
He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Stimson, and 
removed to Dunstable before 1711. He was the first 
resident physician here and he remained in practice 
many years. In 1724 and 1725, Dr. Ebenezer Taylor 
was paid for medicine and medical attendance on Joseph 
Chamberlain, a soldier, and Jabez Davis, a sick soldier. 
From 1711 to 1720, Ebenezer Taylor of Dunstable 
bought and sold many parcels of land in Dunstable and 
in Medford, Mass. In the conveyances he is styled a 
bricklayer, a mason and a husbandman, and in no in- 



80 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

stance is he called a physician. His wife named in the 
deeds was Mary, but a record of his marriage or of his 
death has not been discovered. 

Dr. Samuel Colburn, an aged man of Dracttt, mar- 
ried in 1755, Mary Taylor of Dunstable. It is prob- 
able that she was the widow of Dr. Ebenezer Taylor. 
Of the children of Dr. Ebenezer and Mary Taylor, a 
record of two sons follows. 

2. Benjamin Taylor, son of Dr. Ebenezer, was born in 
1733. He lived in Dunstable. Of good ability and su- 
perior education he occupied a foremost position among 
his townsmen. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He 
married Martha Lyon of Merrimack. They had seven 
or eight children. There is record of the birth of seven, 
and Secomb's Amherst says there were two daughters, 
one of whom married a Woods and one a Merrill. 
Gravestones in the Old Cemetery inform that "Mr. 
Benjamin Taylor son of Dr. Ebenezer Taylor died 
November 17, 1787 in the 55 th year of his age." "Mrs. 
Martha Taylor, wife of Mr. Benja' Taylor died June 16, 
1817 in the 79 th year of her age." 

i. David, born February 6, 1757. He was a soldier in Capt. 
Butterfield's company, Lexington alarm, 1775, and sub- 
sequently enlisted again and died in the service, probably 
in 1776. 

ii. Benjamin, born March 8, 1759. He served three years, 
1777-1780, in Col. Cilley's regiment . He married in Ips- 
wich, August 6, 1782, Anna Lowe, born 1761, daughter 
of Joshua and Anna Lowe. He was a soldier in the Rev- 
olution and also a seaman in the privatier service. About 
1790, he removed to Maine. Two children were born in 
Dunstable. 1. Cyrus Baldwin, born May 8, 1783; 2. 
Thomas, born April 10, 1785. 

iii. Ebenezer, born September 11, 1761. He lived in Amherst, 
where he was a selectman and town officer many years. 
He married January 27, 1791, Lucy Weston, born Feb- 
ruary 27, 1773, daughter of Ebenezer and Lucy (Richard- 
son) Weston of Amherst. He died August 10, 1835; she 
died July 24, 1834. For record of eleven children see 
History of Amherst. 

iv. Eleazer, born December 11, 1763. 

v. Berthiah, born October 25, 1766; married November 26, 1787, 
Benjamin Woods, born in Dunstable, May 4, 1767, son 
of Oliver and Sarah Woods. Three children were born 
in Dunstable. 

vi. Luther, born April 21, 1769; married December 18, 1817, 
Esther Lovewell, born May 16, 1780, daughter of Gen. 
Noah Lovewell, see. He lived in Dunstable (Nashua) 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 81 

where he died August 29, 1843. His widow died May 12, 
1859. 

vii. Martha. There is no record of her birth; she married in 
Dunstable, May 28, 1789, David Merrill. 

viii. Abner, born April 20, 1779, removed to Maine. 

3. James Taylor, probably a son of Dr. Ebenezer Taylor, 
married in Hollis, April 21, 1768, Lois Butterneld of 
Dunstable. He lived in Hollis until 1772, when he re- 
moved to Merrimack. He was one of the volunteers of 
Lieut. Benjamin Bowers company 1777, and in 1778 he 
was quartermaster of Col. Stephen Peabody's regiment 
at Rhode Island. Three children were born in Hollis 
and three in Merrimack. 

James, born April 26, 1769. 

i. Lois, born June 4, 1770. 

ii. Molly, born January 21, 1772. 

v. Susannah, born July 3, 1773. 

v. Ebenezer, born March 31, 1775; died September 10, 1776. 
vi. Olive, born January 21, 1777. 

Christopher Temple, born about 1660, probably a son 
of Richard and Joanna Temple of Concord, Massachu- 
setts. He came to Dunstable soon after 1680, and here 
married December 3, 1685, Alice Hassell, youngest 
daughter of Richard and Joan Hassell. See Hassell 
family. He was a constable in 1691 and was killed by 
the Indians September 28 of the same year. His widow, 
Alice, married second, Januarv 10, 1694, Jacob Kendall, 
born January 25, 1661, son of Francis Kendall of Wo- 
burn. This was the second marriage of Jacob Kendall, 
and of this union there were eleven children born in 
Woburn. Of Christopher and Alice (Hassell) Temple 
there were three children. 

i. Jeremiah, born Dunstable, October 6, 1686. 

ii. Alice, born Dunstable, October 3, 1690; married Jacob Ken- 
dall, born in Woburn, January 12, 1686, son of Jacob and 
Persis (Hayward) Kendall. They lived in Woburn, 
Billenca, and after 1717, in Litchfield, where he was a 
selectman. He died 1742. Their children were Chris- 
topher, Amos, Daniel, Alice, Persis, Elisabeth. 

iii. Christopher, born Dunstable, October 3, 1690. He lived in 
Dunstable several years. After 1728, he lived in Merri- 
mack and owned a farm and ferry next north of the 
Matthew Thornton farm at Thornton's ferry. About 
1760 he sold the farm to James Matthews and removed 



52 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

to Littleton, Massachusetts. During the years of the 
union of Litchfield and Merrimack, he was a selectman, 
1734, 1735, 1738, 1739 and 1741. He married in Andover, 
Mass., December 13, 1743, Jemima (Russell) Hunt, born 
1704, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Johnson) Russell 
and widow of Joseph Hunt. He died in Littleton, May 8, 
1782. His widow died 1790. Their daughter, Jemima 
Temple, married May 21, 1768, Israel Read, born June 16, 
1747, son of Israel and Hannah (Wyman) Read. She 
died in Littleton, November 18, 1783. He married, second, 
Mary Davis, and removed to Walpole, N. H. 

1. Edward Tyng, came to America with his brother, Wil- 
liam, about 1639. He was a brewer and a merchant 
of Boston, and for many years one of the most active 
and prominent men of his time. He was repeatedly 
honored by appointment to office in civil and military 
affairs. In 1660, he purchased of James Parker of 
Chelmsford, three thousand acres of land in the part 
of original Dunstable now Tyngsborough. Here his son 
Jonathan subsequently resided. Fox states that he re- 
moved to Dunstable in 1679, and that he died here De- 
cember 28, 1681. He was buried on his estate at Tyngs- 
borough. His grave is covered with a granite slab bear- 
ing an inscription which gives a different date of death. 
"Here lyeth the body of Mr. Edward Tyng, Esq. aged 71 
years. Died December 17, Day 1681." It is generally 
accredited that the town was named for Dunstable, 
England, the early home of Mary, the wife of Hon. 
Edward Tyng. 

Ten children of Edward and Mary Tyng born in 
Boston. 

i. Hannah, born March 7, 1640; married May 8, 1661, Habi- 
jah Savage, born August 1, 1638, son of Thomas and 
Faith (Hutchinson) Savage. Harvard University 1659; 
merchant, Boston. Their daughter, Mary, was the second 
wife of Rev. Thomas Weld of Dunstable. Habijah 
Savage died 1669; she married, second, Daniel Gookin 
of Cambridge. She died in October, 1689. 

ii. Mary, born April 17, 1641. 

2. iii. Jonathan, born December 15, 1642. 

iv. Deliverance, born August 6, 1645; married Daniel Searles. 
Lived in Boston several years. He was appointed gov- 
ernor of Barbadoes, and bo'th died on the island. See 
Searles family. 

v. Rebecca, born March 23, 1647; died March 16, 1648-9. 

3. vi. Edward, born 1649; baptized April 1, 1649. 

vii. Rebecca, born July 13, 1651; married 1668, Joseph Dudley, 
born in Roxbury, July 23, 1647, son of Governor Thomas 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 83 

Dudley. Harvard University, 1665. He was governor of 
Massachusetts succeeding Governor Simon Bradstreet. 
Subsequently councillor and chief justice of New York, 
deputy governor of the Isle of Wight and again gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts. He died April 2, 1720. She died 
September 21, 1722. They had twelve children. Of these 
Rebecca was the wife of Chief Justice Samuel Sewell ; 
Paul was attorney general and chief justice; Mary married 
Francis Wainvvright, married, second, April 7, 1730, Joseph 
Atkins of Newbury, where she died November 19, 1774. 
Her grandson, Dudley Atkins, born September 3, 1760, as- 
sumed the name of Dudley Atkins Tyng. He was the 
reporter of the supreme court ; he edited seventeen vol- 
umes of the Massachusetts Law Reports. His son, Rev. 
Stephen Higginson Tyng, D. D., born March 1, 1800, was 
the eloquent and scholarly clergyman of the Episcopal 
church. Dudley Atkins Tyng inherited the Tyng estate 
in Tyngsboro. 

viii. William, born March 3, 1652-3. 

ix. Eunice, born March 8, 1655-6; married 1679, Rev. Samuel 
Willard, born at Concord, January 31, 1639-40, son of 
Major Simon Willard. He was pastor of the Old South 
Church and president of Harvard University. It was his 
second marriage. He died September 12, 1707. She died 
at, Boston, January 14, 1720. 

x. Joseph, born July 12, 1657; died July 30, 1658. 



2. Hon. Jonathan Tyng, son of Hon. Edward, born Decem- 
ber 15, 1642. He was one of the earliest settlers of the 
original township, and occupied a commanding position 
in civil and military affairs. He was colonel of the 
north or upper Middlesex regiment and was vested 
with unusual authority by the government of the prov- 
ince. In the successive wars with the Indians he was 
in command over a considerable territory and at all 
times secured the confidence of the government. 

In 1676 he was appointed superintendent over the 
friendly Indians colonized at Dunstable. In this mis- 
sion, Robert Parris was his deputy or assistant. 

In the commission of King James II. to Governor 
Joseph Dudley, 1686, he is named one of the councillors. 
The same council was continued through the adminis- 
tration of Governor Andros. Crowning the honors of 
of a serviceable career he was a judge of the court of 
Middlesex county from 1702 to 1719. 

In the superior qualities of his mind and character 
in the activities of his useful life and in the achieve- 
ments of his descendants is found the inviting and sub- 
stantial material for a volume of local history. 



84 TJiirty Dunstable Families. 

Hon. Jonathan Tyng married Sarah Usher, daughter 
of Hezekiah and Frances Usher of Boston. A record 
of her death has not been discovered. She was the 
mother of his children. He married, second, in Boston, 
May 30, 1706, Sarah (Gibbons-Richards) Davie. She 
was a daughter of William Gibbons, born in Hartford, 
August 17, 1645. She married James Richards of Hart- 
ford, who died July 29, 1680; she married, second, 
Humphrey Davie of Boston , his second wife. She 
died at Woburn, February 28, 1712-3 "in the 69 
year of her age." Gravestone at Woburn. In Massa- 
chusetts Historical collections, sixth series, Vol II., 
page 298, is found an item by Samuel Sewall : "March 
4 1713-14 went to Woburn to attend the funeral of 
Aunt Tyng being his second wife." 

He married, third, Judith (Reyner) Fox, a daughter 
of Rev. John Reyner of Plymouth, Mass., and Dover, 
N. H., and widow of Rev. fabez Fox of Woburn. 

He removed from Dunstable to Woburn 1712 or 1713. 
and there died January 19, 1723-4. His widow died 
June 5, 1736, aged 98 years. Gravestones at Woburn. 

Five children were born in Boston and seven in 
Dunstable. 

i. Francis, born December 11. 1669. 

ii. Elizabeth, born December 28, 1670. 

iii. Jonathan, born January 29, 1671-2; died young. 

iv. John, born September 1, 1673. Harvard University, 1691. 
Soon after his graduation he went to London, England, 
and there died in 1710. The statement that he was an 
officer in Queen Anne's War is erroneous. 

v. Mary, born January 16, 1676-7. 

4. vi. William, born April 22, 1679. 

vii. Hezekiah, born May 29, 1680; died young. 

viii. Edward, born March 2, 1681-2; died August 25, 1682. 

ix. Joseph, born June 30, 1683; died young. 

x Jonathan, born September 29, 1686. 

5. xi. Eleazer, born April 30, 1690. 

xii. Barsheba, born February 5, 1694. 

3. Hon. Edward Tyng, son of Edward and Mary Tyng, 
born in Boston, 1649; baptized April 1, 1649. He re- 
moved to Falmouth, 1680, and was commandant of the 
fort 1680 and 1681. He was commissioned a colonel. 
In 1686 he was named a councillor in the commission 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 85 

of Governor Joseph Dudley, and was continued in that 
office through the administration of Governor Andros. 
Later he was appointed governor of Annapolis, and on 
the voyage thither he was captured by the French. He 
died, a prisoner, in France. He married at Falmouth, 
Elizabeth Clark, a daughter of Thaddeus and Elizabeth 
(Milton) Clark. They had four or more children. 

i. Edward, born 1683; died in Boston, September 8, 1755. He 
served in the navy with distinction. He was a commodore 
and senior officer at Louisbourg, 1745. He married at 
Boston, January 7, 1731, Ann Waldo, born April 13. 
1708, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Mason) Waldo of 
Boston. They had seven children : Ann, born October 
22, 1733, married October 3, 1756, Thomas Smelt, of the 
British army; Edward, born January 19, 1734-5, an officer 
of the British army, died in England about 1776 ; Jonathan, 
born August 5, 1736, died young; William, born August 
17, 1737, married Elizabeth Ross, daughter of Alexander 
and Elizabeth (Duguid) Ross of Falmouth. He was a 
merchant on Cornhill, Boston, several years. In 1767, he 
was appointed sheriff of Cumberland County, Maine, and 
removed to Falmouth. He was a representative 1772 and 
1773. In the Revolution he was a royalist, and went to 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his property was confiscated. 
He was chief justice of the courts of Nova Scotia. In 
1793, he returned to Maine and subsequently lived at 
Gorham, where he died, sine prole, December 10, 1807. 
Hannah, born October 25, 1738; Mary, born October 
5, 1741. 

ii. Jonathan, died young. 

iii. Mary, married Rev. John Fox, born May 10, 1678, son of 
Rev. Jabez Fox; the father and son were ministers at 
Woburn. He died December 12, 1756; she died in Feb- 
ruary, 1764. Seven children. 

iv. Elizabeth, born about 1685; married, Boston, May 16, 1705, 
Samuel Franklin, born May 16, 1681, son of Josiah and 
Ann (Child) Franklin and half-brother of Benjamin 
Franklin. 



Major William Tyng, son of Hon. Jonathan and Sarah 
(Usher) Tyng, was born at Dunstable, April 22, 1679. 
He was a soldier. At the outbreak of Queen Anne's 
War he was a lieutenant in command of~a garrison in 
Dunstable. For the first time the Indians began to 
be active and troublesome in the winter season. By 
concurrent action of Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire, several companies were supplied with snowshoes 
and ordered out in the winter. These were called snow- 
shoe men and the first company engaged in this service 
was organized at Dunstable and commanded by Capt. 



86 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

William Tyng. This was the first company of snow- 
shoe men. They were in the field thirty days and re- 
turned with five scalps for which the company received 
a bounty of two hundred pounds. The roll of the com- 
pany is not preserved, but the dates and duration of 
service is stated in Massachusetts Council Records, 
Vol. IV., page 20: "A Muster Roll of the Foot Com- 
pany under command of Capt. W m Tyng containing 
account of wages for services from Dec. 28 to Jany 25 
1703-4, four weeks £71-1 I s including 25 s to Jonathan 
Prescott Jun r Clyrurgion for looking after one of the 
men that came home sick." 

He remained in the service from time to time until 
his death. Meanwhile he removed to Chelmsford and 
represented that town in the General Court. He was 
promoted to major, and in the summer of 1710, while 
in command of a battalion between Groton and Lan- 
caster, he was severely wounded and was carried to 
Concord for medical attendance. He died in Concord, 
August 16, 1710. Several writers erroneously have 
credited a part or the whole of this military service to 
his brother John. 

Major William Tyng married September 19, 1700, 
Lucy Clark, daughter of Rev. Thomas Clark of Chelms- 
ford. She died April 25, 1708. 

Three children of Major William and Lucy (Clark) 
Tyng. 

i. Sarah, born March 11, 1702-3; married in Dunstable, Sep- 
tember 12, 1728, Rev. Thomas Smith, born Falmouth, 
Maine, March 10, 1702, son of Thomas and Mary (Cor- 
win) Smith. Harvard University, 1720. He was the first 
pastor of the First Church of Portland, and author of 
Smith's Historical Journal. She died October 1, 1742. 
Subsequently he was twice married. His first wife was 
the mother of his eight children. He died May 25, 1795. 
Thek daughter, Lucy, married Thomas Sanders of Glou- 
cester, Massachusetts. Of this marriage, one daughter, 
Lucy, married Paul Dudley Sargent, a colonel of the 
Revolution, who died in Sullivan, Maine. Another daugh- 
ter, Mary, was the grandmother of the actress, Charlotte 
Sanders Cushman. 

ii. John, born January 28, 1705. Harvard University, 1725. He 
lived in Tyngsborough. He was a representative ten 
years, and a judge and chief justice of the Court of 
Common Pleas from 1763 to 1786. He was an amiable, use- 
ful man, and in an eminent degree he was respected and 
beloved by his fellow men. He died April 18, 1797. He 
married in Boston, August 29, 1732, Mary Morse, born 
in Boston, September 29, 1705, daughter of Benjamin and 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 87 

Frances (Cook) Morse. She died October 15, 1783. 
Their daughter, Elizabeth, died August 6, 1782, aged 39 
years. Their daughter, Mary, married June 3, 1779, Hon. 
John Pitts of Boston. 

Mary, born October 25, 1706; married at Woburn, October 
7, 1723, Rev. Nathaniel Prentice, born 1698, son of Henry 
and Mary (Gove) Prentice of Cambridge. Harvard 
University, 1715. He was ordained over the church of 
Dunstable, 1720, and here died February 25, 1736-7. Grave- 
stone. Five children of Rev. Nathaniel and Mary (Tyng) 
Prentice: Mary, born January 2, 1724-5; William Henry, 
born December 2, 1726; Nathaniel, born May 29, 1729; 
Lucy; John. Of these, Nathaniel died in England about 
1769, William Henry married in Boston, April 12, 1753, Sarah 
Edes, born in Boston, April 17, 1729, daughter of Ed- 
ward and Sarah (Mills) Edes. He was an engineer. He 
died in Littleton, Mass., April 12, 1798. Nathaniel Prentice, 
his son, was the clothier of New Ipswich. 



5. Col. Eleazer Tyng, son of Hon. Jonathan and Sarah 
(Usher) Tyng, was born in Dunstable, April 30, 1690. 
Harvard University, 1712. Through life he was an 
active, useful citizen. He was a colonel of the militia 
and a magistrate and was elected to many town and 
state offices. He inherited and improved the Tyng 
estate. 

He married in Boston, July 24, 1716, Sarah Alford, 
born in Boston, March 17, 1693-4, daughter of Benja- 
min and Mary, and a sister of Hon. John Alford, who 
founded the Alford Prof. Natural Theology in Har- 
vard University. She died May 23, 1753. He died May 
21, 1782. Five children. 

i. Jonathan, born September 10, 1717; died young. 

ii. Sarah, born April 22, 1720; married in Chelmsford, September 
4, 1760, John VVinslow, born, Boston, April 14, 1700, son of 
Edward and Hannah Winslow. He died November 3, 
1788; she died October 29, 1791. 

iii. Benjamin, born January 26, 1722, not married. He "died 
on a voyage to the Carolinas." 

iv. John Alford, born August 29, 1729, died September 4, 1775. 
He was not married. 

v. James, born March 6, 1731; married June 11, 1772, Rebecca 
Russell, born in Charlestown, February 27, 1746-7, daugh- 
ter of Hon. James and Katherine (Greaves) Russell. He 
lived in Tyngsborough, where he died September 11, 1775. 
His widow, Rebecca, married, second, in Boston, January 
27, 1778; John Lowell, Esq. 



88 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Usher. The most potent men in forwarding the settle- 
ment of Dunstable were Hon. Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 
Hon. Edward Tyng of Boston, Hon. Jonathan Tyng of Dun- 
stable, a son of Hon. Edward and Dea. John Blanchard, whose 
name and the names of his sons and grandsons are firmly 
written in the annals of the town. The wife of Hon. Jona- 
than Tyng was Sarah, a daughter of Hezekiah Usher. Robert 
Usher, Jr., married a daughter of Dea. John Blanchard. 

1. Robert Usher, a brother of Hon. Hezekiah, settled in 

Stamford, Connecticut. He was a representative and 
ever prominent in civil affairs. He married May 13, 
1659, Elizabeth Jagger, widow of Jeremy Jagger. He 
died about 1670, leaving four children to the care of 
their uncle, Hon. Hezekiah Usher. 

i. Elizabeth, born February 25, 1659; married August 2, 1680, 
John Solendine. See New England Register, 1906. Fox 
writes the name Lollendine. 

2. ii. Robert, born about 1662. 
iii. Mehitable. 

iv. Sarah. 

2. Robert Usher, son of Robert and Elizabeth, was born 

in Stamford about 1662. He came to Dunstable in 
early life and here married January 23, 1694, Sarah 
Blanchard, a daughter of Dea. John Blanchard. See 
Blanchard family. Possibly they had more children, 
but mention of only two appears. 

3. i. John, born May 31, 1696. 

ii. Robert, born June, 1700. He was a soldier under Capt. John 
Lovewell and was killed at Pigwacket, May 8, 1725. 

3. John Usher, son of Robert and Sarah (Blanchard) Usher. 

born May 31, 1696; married his cousin, Hannah Blanch- 
ard, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Abiah (Hassell) 
Blanchard. He lived in Dunstable and in Merrimack. 
He was a selectman and in the records of his time he 
receives frequent and honorable mention. An imperfect 
record of nine children has been collected from many 
sources. 

i. John, born May 2, 1728; died young. 

4. ii. Robert, born April 9, 1730. 
iii. Rachel, born 1732. 



TJiirty Dunstable Families. 89 

iv. Habijah, born August 8, 1734; died young. 

v. William, born 1737; unmarried, died Hallowell, Maine. 

vi. John, born December 5, 1741 ; died young. 

vii. Elizabeth, born March 14, 1744; married at Amherst, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1773, Dea. James Robinson of Bow, New Hamp- 
shire. Their children were James, William, Sarah, Eliza- 
beth, Calvin, Harvey. 

viii. Eleazer, born June 16, 1746. He lived in Merrimack and 
Amherst. He married December 4, 1777, Widow Pru- 
dence Wilson, who died January 10, 1828. He died July 
8, 1811. Four children: Jacob, born November 17, 1778; 
William, born March 25, 1780; Patty, born 1783; Simeon, 
born June 10, 1785, died April 28, 1786. 

ix. Olive, born August 27, 1749; died young. 



Robert Usher, son of John, born in Merrimack, April 
9, 1730, married 1754, Sarah Stearns, born in Merri- 
mack, August 9, 1734, daughter of Zachariah and Sarah 
Stearns. They lived in Merrimack until 1790, when 
they removed to Medford, Mass., where he died of 
fever, October 13, 1793. His widow, Sarah, died March 
25, 1794. Nine children. 

i. Sarah, born July 6, 1755 ; married John Nash. 

ii. Abijah, born February 15, 1757. No record found of his 
first marriage; his wife died at Medford, October 19, 1791. 
He married, second, December 20, 1795, Rebecca Kidder, 
born, Medford, September 11, 1772, daughter of Samuel 
Kidder. 

iii. Hannah, born February 7, 1759; married John Peters. 

iv. Robert, born March 7, 1761 ; married in Nelson, N. H., 
October 19, 1784, Lydia Scollay, born in Harvard, De- 
cember 13, 1768, daughter of Grover and Lois (Atherton) 
Scollay. Lived in Merrimack, N. H. 

v. Daniel, born May 4, 1763; married in Framingham, Decem- 
ber, 26, 1785, Lois Park, daughter of Gideon and Hannah 
(Fuller) Park. He married, second, in Dan vers, October, 
1795, Margaret Carroll, born March 25, 1768, daughter of 
Patrick and Amy Carroll. He died in Danvers, May 17, 
1848. 

vi. Fanny, born 1764; married December 23, 1798, Daniel Wyer. 
He died at Medford, June 14, 1817. 

vii. John, born 1766. 

viii. Mary, born 1768; married November 23, 1800, Wyman 
Weston. 

ix. Eleazer, born November 23, 1770. He married October 6, 
1799, Fanny Bucknam. Lived in Medford. He died 
April 9, 1852. His wife died December 28, 1848. The 



90 Thirty Du?i stable Families. 

youngest of their eleven children was Roland G. Usher, 
born January 6, 1823. He was paymaster, U. S. A., 1861- 
1865; mayor of Lynn 1866, and warden of state prison 
1883-1886. 



Dea. Cornelius Waldo was born in England about 1624. 
He settled in Ipswich and there married Hannah Cogs- 
well, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) 
Cogswell. He sold his house and lot in Ipswich in 1654, 
and soon removed to Chelmsford. He was active and 
prosperous, owning large parcels of land. The story of 
the Waldo farm in Dunstable is well known. This led to 
a residence here of his sons John, Cornelius and Daniel, 
but none of these remained many years. While they 
were in Dunstable they were prominent in the affairs of 
the settlement. Dea. Waldo died in Chelmsford, Jan- 
uary 3, 1700. Three of his ten children were residents a 
few years in Dunstable. 

i. John, born in Ipswich; married Rebecca Adams, daughter 
of Samuel and Rebecca (Graves) Adams of Chelmsford. 
He lived in Dunstable from about 1678 to 1688. He was 
a soldier in King Philip's War. He was in Capt. Wheel- 
er's company which met the Indians at a disadvantage 
near Brookfield in August, 1675. In the encounter, eight 
of Capt. Wheeler's company were killed and five were 
wounded. "The fifth was John Waldo of Chelmsford, 
who was not so dangerously wounded as the rest." He 
was a representative, 1689. He removed to Windham, 
Connecticut. He died before 1702. His children were : 
John, born May 19, 1678; Catherine, born 1680; Edward, 
born April 23, 1684; Rebecca, born August 6, 1686; Ruth; 
Sarah, baptized, Boston, December 6, 1691, married July 
4, 1715, Jehosaphat Holmes; Abigail. 

ii. Cornelius, born about 1655. He served in King Philip's 
War, and subsequently lived a few years in Dunstable, 
but soon removed to Boston. He married Faith Peck, 
born in Boston, December 8, 1658, daughter of Thomas 
and Elizabeth Peck. He probably died before 1700. Four 
children : Cornelius, born November 17, 1684 ; Elizabeth, 
born January 7, 1686-7; Rachel, born April 20, 1690; 
Judith, born January 25, 1691-2. 

iii. Daniel, born August 16, 1657; married Susannah Adams, a 
sister of the wife of his brother John. After a residence 
in Dunstable of a few years, he removed with his brother 
John, to Connecticut. His children were : Susannah, 
born 1684; Hannah, born July 17, 1687; Bethia, born 
August 20, 1688; Daniel, born March 25, 1692; Rebecca, 
born February 5, 1693-4; Marah, born February 10, 
1695-6; Esther, born January 3, 1698; Zachariah, born 
November 25, 1701. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 91 

Samuel Warner was born in Ipswich, 1640. His father, 
John Warner, removed from Ipswich to Brookfield, 
1665, and was one of the three who secured the Indian 
deed of the township. At the destruction of Brookfield, 
1675, John Warner and several of his sons retired to 
Hadley and subsequently resided in that town or im- 
mediate vicinity. 

Samuel Warner participated with his father and his 
brothers in the founding of Brookfield and in 1673 was 
one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the town, 
but there is no evidence that he removed his family 
from Ipswich until he removed to Dunstable very soon 
after 1680. He was one of the proprietors and was one 
of the seven male members of the church of Dunstable 
at its organization, December 16, 1685. He died about 
1703. 

He married at Ipswich, October 21, 1662, Mercy 
Swan, born July 4, 1640, daughter of Richard Swan of 
Rowley. She died at Dunstable, April 3, 1683. He 
married, second, May 4, 1685, Mary (Martin) Swallow, 
widow of Ambrose Swallow of Chelmsford, see. 

Six children of the first wife born in Ipswich, and 
one of the second wife born in Dunstable. 

i. Prisciela, born September 25, 1666; married December 19, 
1688, Thomas Cummings, born October 6, 1658, son of 
John and Sarah (Howlet) Cummings. 

ii. Samuel, bGrn July 5, 1668, removed to Connecticut. 

iii. John, born August 2, 1670; died July 14, 1671. 

iv. Dorothy, born June 2, 1672. 

v. Sarah, born May 28, 1674. 

vi. Richard, born August 13, 1676. He lived in Groton. He 
married May 7, 1709, Sarah Gilson, widow of John 
Gilson. They had four children born in Groton. 

vii. Eleazer, born January 27, 1686-7. He lived a few years in 
Brookfield, removing to New Braintree, where he died 
February 28, 1776. In the Indian wars of his time he 
served as a private, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and 
captain, and was moderator, assessor and selectman of 
New Braintree. He married December 4, 1722, Prudence 
Barnes, daughter of Thomas Barnes who died February 
25, 1770. Of their ten children, seven sons served in the 
French and Indian War and three died in the service. 

Rev. Thomas Weld, the first minister of Dunstable, was 
born in Roxbury, June 1, baptized June 12, 1653. He was 
a son of Thomas and Dorothy (Whiting) Weld, grand- 
son of Rev. Thomas Weld, and maternal grandson of 



92 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn. He graduated at Har- 
vard University 1671, and was admitted to the church 
of Roxbury, April 27, 1678. He studied divinity with 
Rev. Samuel Danforth and began preaching in Dun- 
stable as early as 1679. The church was gathered and 
Mr. Weld was ordained December 16, 1685. The 
churches of Exeter, Hampton, Dover and Portsmouth 
are of earlier foundation. It was the fifth church or- 
ganized within the limits of New Hampshire. At that 
date Dunstable was within the jurisdiction of Massa- 
chusetts. If the limit of these family registers would 
permit, much could be written in commendation of 
the first minister of Dunstable. It is probable that 
preaching was suspended two years or more during the 
Indian hostilities beginning in 1691, and he died at 
the beginning of Queen Anne's War, June 7, 1702. The 
inscription upon the monument, erected in 1876, that 
he "probably was massacred by the Indians" is not 
credited. 

Rev. Thomas Weld married in Medford, November 
9, 1681, Elizabeth Wilson, born 1656, a daughter of Rev. 
John and Sarah (Hooker) Wilson. Her father was the 
first minister of Medfield, her grandfather, Rev. John 
Wilson, was the first minister of Boston, and her mater- 
nal grandfather, Rev. Thomas Hooker, was the first 
minister of Hartford. She died at Dunstable, July 29, 
1687. He married, second, at Cambridge, May 22, 1700, 
Mary Savage, born August 27, 1667, daughter of Hon. 
Habijah and Hannah (Tyng) Savage of Boston, and 
granddaughter of Hon. Edward Tyng. Hon. Jonathan 
Tyng of Dunstable, was her uncle. She died at the 
home of her son, Rev. Habijah Weld, in Attleborough, 
June 2, 1731. There were four children of the first and 
two of the second wife. 

i. Elizabeth, born October 13, 1682. 

ii. Thomas, born February 7, 1683-4. In the will of Rev. John 
Wilson of Medfield, dated August 20, 1691, several parcels 
of land are devised to "my beloved grandchild Thomas 
Weld." He graduated at Harvard University, 1701, and 
the following year he was a school teacher in Chelms- 
ford. Capt. Bowers, Cornet Hill, and Eleazer Brown, the 
town committee "Agreed with Sir Weld to be our school 
master half a year for £15. y e sd. Sir Weld begun to keep 
school on ye 1st: Q f October, 1702." 

He united with the church of Roxbury in 1704 and 
died the same year, as appears in the church records of 
1704. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 93 

"Thomas Weld, A. B. pius juvenis premature objit in 
Christo circiter viginti annos natus." 

iii. Eleazer, born January 5, 1684-5; died April 11, 1686. 

iv. John, born February 5, 1685-6; died July 25, 1686. 

v. Samuel, born March 4, 1700-1701. 

vi. Habijah Savage, born July 2, 1702, posthumous. He was 
baptized at Cambridge, by Rev. William Brattle, August 
9, 1702. He graduated at Harvard University, 1723, and 
was ordained at Attleborough, Mass., October 1, 1727. 
Here he preached with great acceptance fifty-five years. 
He died May 4, 1782. He married October 17, 1728, Mary 
Fox, born October 26, 1706, daughter of Rev. John and 
Mary (Tyng) Fox of Woburn. They had fifteen children. 

1. Samuel Whiting, son of Rev. Samuel and Dorcas (Ches- 
ter) Whiting of Billerica, grandson of Rev. Samuel and 
Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting of Lynn, was born in Bil- 
lerica, January 19, 1662-3. He was one of the first set- 
tlers in Dunstable and the cause of his settlement here is 
easily discerned. In consideration of money advanced by 
John Whiting, an alderman of Boston in England, and 
a brother of Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn, the General 
Court granted him, October 16, 1660, four hundred 
acres in Dunstable, bounded by Salmon brook and the 
Merrimack river. The title immediately passed from 
John to his brother, Rev. Samuel, and from him to his 
grandson, Samuel. 

Samuel Whiting was town clerk, selectman, and is 
frequently and honorably mentioned in the records. 
His home was one of the fortified garrisons. The 
record is not clear but at one time he was held in cap- 
tivity by the Indians, and in 1713, the General Court, 
on account of wounds and sufferings, granted him ten 
pounds. 

He married at Dunstable, January 27, 1686-7, Eliza- 
beth Read, daughter of Christopher Read, see. He died 
at Billerica, March 8, 1715. His widow married, second, 
1717, William Patten, born May 12, 1671, son of 
Thomas and Rebecca (Paine) Patten. He lived in 
Billerica. He died of smallpox at Cambridge, while 
attending the General Court. The children of Samuel 
and Elizabeth Whiting were : 

2. i. Samuel, born October 22, 1687. 

ii. Elizabeth, born April 26, 1689; married December 19. 1710, 
Rev. Samuel Ruggles, son of Samuel and Martha (Wood- 
bridge) Ruggles of Roxbury. He was pastor at Billerica. 
She died July 29, 1727. Eight children. 



94 Thirty Dunstable Families. 

iii. Catherine, born June 10, 1691; married December 31, 1714, 
John Lane, born October 20, 1691, son of Col. John and 
Susannah (Whipple) Lane. They lived in Billerica, 
where she died April 1, 1731. Six children. 

iv. Leonard, born August 12, 1693, probably settled in Con- 
necticut. 

v. Joseph, born December 14, 1695; probably settled in Con- 
necticut. 

vi. Mary, born January 1, 1701 ; married June 4, 1735, her 
cousin, Oliver Whiting, born March 29, 1691, son of 
Oliver and Anna (Danforth) Whiting of Billerica. 

vii. Dorcas, born 1703; married December 30, 1725, Rev. Ben- 
jamin Ruggles, a son of Samuel and Martha (Wood- 
bridge) Ruggles. He was pastor of Middleboro, now 
Lakeyille, where he was ordained November 17, 1725; 
dismissed in December, 1753. 

viii. John, born March 11, 1706; died before 1718. 

2. Samuel Whiting, son of Samuel, born October 22, 1687. 

He was a soldier in Lovewell's third expedition and was 
wounded May 8, 1725. He lived in Dunstable, and was 
living 1748. He was one of the supporters of Rev. 
Samuel Bird. I have found no record of his marriage 
or death. He had at least one son. 

3. i. Joseph, born 1727. 

3. Joseph Whiting, son of Samuel, was born 1727. He 

married June 11, 1761, Abigail Chamberlain, born Feb- 
ruary 27, 1743, daughter of Thomas and Susannah 
Chamberlain. He lived many years in Dunstable, 
where he was town clerk and often employed in town 
business. In 1793, he removed to the north part of 
Lyndeborough. He died in Merrimack, 1807. His 
wife, Abigail, died in Dunstable, April 19, 1779. Ten 
children were born in Dunstable. 

i. Joseph, born November 13, 1761; died April 21, 1778. 

ii. Samuel, born June 30, 1763; married March 31, 1795. Anstress 
Barker. He lived in Amherst where he died March 24, 
1805. He was a merchant. Three, probably more, 
children. (1) Samuel, born 1797, Dartmouth College, 
1818, was a lawyer in Mason, where he died September 
24, 1829. He married July 3, 1827. Hannah Russell, 
daughter of Hubbard and Sarah (Warren) Russell of 
Mason. (2) Anstress, born 1803, died August 5, 1803. 
(3) Mary, born 1805, died April 23, 1805. 

iii. Susannah, born March 20, 1765. 

iv. Leonard, born January 16, 1767. 



Thirty Dunstable Families. 95 

v Oliver, born January 29, 1769; married May 2, 1793, Hannah 
Marshall, born in Billerica, October 24, 1774, daughter 
of Isaac and Abigail (Brown) Marshall. He lived in 
Lyndeborough. He died July 15, 1815; she died in 
October, 1S43. Eight children. See History of Lynde- 
borough. 

vi William, born September 28, 1770. He married April 8, 
1793, Mary Thompson, born October 21, 1773, daughter 
of Asa and Mary (Swallow) Thompson of Tyngs- 
borough. He lived in Merrimack, where he died June 
4, 1813. She died at Pepperell, July 1, 1839. 

vii. Elizabeth, born July 16, 1772. 

viii Thomas, born October 20, 1774; died at Amherst, December 
16, 1801. 

ix. Abigail, born August 13, 1776. 

x Jonathan, born February 18, 1778; died at Amherst, Decem- 
ber 17, 1802. 

James Whiting, a record of his birth and names of his 
parents have not been found. He married Hepsibah 
Foster, born March 12, 1696-7, daughter of Eli and 

- Judith (Keyes) Foster of Chelmsford. He removed 
soon after his marriage to Chester, N. H., where he 
resided from 1725 to 1736. He was one of a committee 
to distribute the common land among the proprietors 
in 1725, and a constable in 1726. He removed to Dun- 
stable 1736, and was included in Hollis, when that town 
was severed from Dunstable. He died in Hollis in 1774. 
The two youngest of his nine children were born in 
Dunstable. 

Jonathan, born April 13, 1722. 

i. James, born June 23, 1724. 

ii. Phebe, born in Chester, January 29, 1726. 

v. Thomas, born in Chester, January 29, 1728. 

v. Mary, born in Chester, June 2, 1730. 

vi. Michael, born in Chester, March 29, 1734; removed to Guil- 
ford, Vermont. 

vii. Dorcas, born in Chester, April 5, 1736. 

viii. David, born in Dunstable, September 13, 1738. 

ix. Hepsibah, born in Dunstable, 1740. 



INDEX OF NAMES. 



The registers are arranged in alphabetical order and persons men- 
tioned as members of a family are not indexed. This index contains 
the names of persons connected by marriage and those incidentally 
mentioned. 



Abbot, Mary, 61. 
Adams, Elizabeth, 62. 

Pelatiah, 5. 

Rebecca, 90. 

Ruth, 5. 

Samuel, 90. 

Susannah, 90. 
Alford, John, S7. 

Sarah, 87. 
Ames, John, 63. 

Priscilla, 63. 

Stephen, 63. 
Andrus, Desire, 24. 
Archibald, David, 12, 13. 

Jane, 13. 

Martha, 13. 

Matthew, 13. 
Aspinwall, William, 47. 
Atherton, Lois, 89. 
Atkins, Dudley, 83. 

Joseph, 83. 
Atwater, Abigail, 25. 
Ayers, Joseph, 41. 

Bachelder, Seaborn, 17, 
57. 

William, 17, 57. 
Bailey, Svbel, 20, 77. 
Baker, Henry M., 39. 

John, 47. 

Joseph, 27, 39. 

Thomas, 38. 
Ball, Anna, 46. 
Bancroft, Ebenezer, 17. 
Barker, Anstress, 94. 

William, 10. 
Barnard, Benjamin, 59. 
Barnes, Prudence, 91. 

Thomas, 91. 
Barrett, Anna, 68. 

John, 67. 

Mehitable, 25. 

Sarah, 67. 

Thomas, 25, 68. 



Barron, Benjamin, 58. 

Ellis, 58. 

Ellis, 59. 

Moses, 66. 

Samuel, 55. 

William, 28. 
Bartlett, Abigail, 46. 

Ebenezer, 46. 
Batchelder, Joseph, U0. 

Mary, 26. 
Bates, Hannah, 61. 
Beale, Benjamin, 32. 

Bridget, 32. 

Martha, 15. 

Samuel, 35. 

William, 15, 35. 
Bedel, Sarah, 43. 

Timothy, 28. 
Behoney, see Honey 
Bennett, Benjamin, 63. 

Joseph, 63. 

Mary, 15, 63. 

Mose9, 5. 

Samuel, 48. 
Bent, Elizabeth, 59. 

Hopestill, 59. 

Peter, 59. 
Bird, Samuel, 40, 70, 94. 
Bixby, Abigail, 65. 

David, 65. 

Thankful, 65. 
Blanchard, Ann, 3. 

Augustus. 32, 40. 

Edward, 88. 

Elizabeth, 20, 61. 

Grace, 20. 

Hannah, 57, 61, 88. 

lohn, 17,56,57,61, 
88. 

Joseph, 29, 40, 41, 
61, 88. 

Mary, 17. 

Rachel, 76. 

Sarah, 88. 



Blanchard, Susannah, 

43. 

Thomas, 61. 

William, 3. 
Blodgett, Anna, 73. 

Bridget, 75. 

Jemima, 75. 

John, 5. 

Josiah, 75. 

Mary, 5. 

Thomas, 5. 
Blood, Anna, 4. 

Elizabeth, 68. 

Hannah, 4, 68. 

Mary, 5. 

Nathaniel, 4, 68. 

Sybel, 72. 
Borland, Francis, 50. 
Boutelle, Lucy, 75. 
Bowers, Benjamin, 81 

Jesse, 45. 

William, 45. 
Boynton, Ruth, 76. 
Brackett, Alice, 4. 

Hannah, 4. 

Richard, 4. 
Bradstreet, Bridget, 2. 

Elizabeth, 10. 

Humphrey, 2. 

Martha, 2. 

Simon, 83. 
Brattle, William, 93. 
Breed, Elizabeth, 57. 
Brenton, William, 16. 
Bridgeman, Henry, 34. 
Briggs, Hannah, 57. 
Brigham, Hepsibah, 43. 
Brown, Abigail, 59, 95. 

Eleazer, 92. 

Elizabeth, 59. 

Hopestill, 59. 

James, 5. 

Mary, 59. 

Rebecca, 7. 



98 



Index. 



Bucknam, Fanny, 89. 
Bulkeley, Peter, 17. 
Burge, Rebecca, G3. 
Burlingame, John, 28. 
Burnap, Elizabeth, 8. 

Martha, 75. 
Burrage, John, 57. 

Thomas, 4, 57. 
Burroughs, Betsey, 33. 

Joseph, 33. 
Burton, Sarah, 52. 
Butler, Elizabeth, 51. 
Butterfield, Beniamin, 
64. 

Betsey, 31. 

Ebeuezer, 74. 

Lois, 81. 

Mary, 64. 

Rachel, 74. 

Rhoda, 31. 

Samuel, 74. 

Sarah, 64. 
Buxton, Mary, 68. 

Stephen, 68. 

Calef, Hannah, 10. 

Robert, 10. 

Sarah, 10. 
Carleton, Jeremiah, 78. 

Joseph, 78. 
Carlton, Rebecca, 55. 
Carroll, Amy, 89. 

Margaret, 89. 

Patrick, 89. 
Cash, James, 30. 
Chamberlain, Abigail, 
94. 

Jane, 61. 

John, 37. 

Joseph, 79. 

Susannah, 94. 

Thomas, 94. 
Chapman, Mary, 71. 
Cheney, John, 72. 
Chester, Dorcas, 93. 
Child, Ann, 85. 

Ruth, 46. 
Chittenden, Beulah, 25 

Mary, 24. 

Thomas, 24, 25. 
Clark, Abraham, 78. 

Elizabeth, 85. 

Lucy, 86. 

Rebecca, 55. 

Rose, 3. 

Thaddeus, 85. 

Thomas, 86. 
Clogston, John, 28. 



Clogston, Mary, 28. 
Codman, Rachel, 13. 
Coggin, Sarah, 13. 
Cogswell, Hannah, 90. 

John, 90. 
Colburn, Hannah, 55. 

Samuel, 80. 
Combs, Susannah, 2. 
Converse, Abigail, 7. 

Jesse, 7. 

John, 7. 

Joseph, 7. 

Joshua, 7, 76. 

Rachel, 7, 76. 

Zebulon, 7. 
Cook, Frances, 87. 
Cooke, Andrew, 3, 35, 
37. 

Mary, 37. 
Cooper, William, 47. 
Corey, John, G9. 

Mary, 69. 
Corwin, Mary, 86. 
Cotton, Sarah, 12. 
Courser, William, 34. 
Covvper, Jane, 17, 57. 
Cox, Esther, 13. 
Craze, Richard, 36. 
Crispe, Benjamin, 57. 

Bridget, 57. 

Mary, 57. 
Cromwell, John, 57. 
Crosby, Esther, 13. 

Joel, 13. 

John, 13. 

Josiah, 13. 

Samson, 13. 
Cumbey, Humphrey, 17. 

Robert, 17. 

Sarah, 17. 
Cummings, Asenath, 73. 

Ebenezer, 78. 

Eleazer, 45. 

Elizabeth, 19, 26, 62, 
78. 

Ephraini, 51. 

Isaac, 49. 

Israel W., 45. 

James, 20. 

Jeremiah, 20, 72. 

John, 4, 18, 19, 27, 
62, 78, 91. 

Jonathan, 6. 

Josiah, 6, 77. 

Mary, 20, 62. 

Nathaniel, 19. 

Oliver, 20, 77. 

Priscilla, 6, 51, 54. 



Cummings, Rachel, 62. 

Sarah, 18, 74, 78, 
91. 

Simeon, 73. 

Thomas, 6, 91. 

William, 27. 
Cushing, Samuel, 77. 
Cushman, Charlotte 

Sanders, 86. 
Cutler, Sarah, 53. 
Cutter, Rebecca, 71. 
Cutts, Samuel, 11. 

Dane, Mary, 74. 
Danforth, Abigail, 11. 

Anna, 94. 

David, 14. 

Elizabeth, 14. 

Jonathan, 16. 

Joseph, 53, 76. 

Josiah, 21. 

Lucy, 53. 

Mary, 76. 

Orpah, 54. 

Rhoda, 21. 

Samuel, 92. 

Timothy, 14. 

William, 54. 
Darrell, Elizabeth, 58. 
Davenport, Nathaniel, 

47, 78. 
Davie, Humphrey, 84. 

Sarah (Gibbous Rich- 
ards), 84. 
Davis, Elizabeth, 7. 
Davis, Jabez, 79. 

Mary, 82. 
Dean, Sarah, 8. 
Derbyshire, John, 4. 
Dinsmore, Samuel, 10. 
Druse, Mary, 5. 
Dudley, Joseph, 5, 82, 
83, 85. 

Mary, 5. 

Thomas, 82. 
Duguid, Elizabeth, 85. 
Duncklee, Jacob, 53. 
Dunster, Jason, 71. 

Rebecca, 71. 
D wight, Betsey, 74. 

Eastman, Amos, 70. 

Jonathan F., 11. 

Joseph F., 11. 
Eaton, Hannah, 10. 

Rebecca, 55. 
Eddy, Mary Baker, 39. 
Edes, Edward, 87. 



Index. 



99 



Edes, Sarah, 87. 
Elliot, Elizabeth, 12. 

William, 32. 
Emerson, Amos, 28. 

Daniel, 70. 

Hannah, 70. 

Lucy, 70. 
Erwin, Miriam, 63. 
Ettridge, S. I., 55. 

Parmer, Sarah, 27. 
Farrar, Rebecca, 77. 

Timothy, 41. 
Farwell, Henry, 6, 19, 
36. 

Jonathan, 43. 

Joseph, 11. 

Josiah, 36, 38. 

Mary, 44. (t^ 

Oliver, lV'l k 

Rachel, 43. 

Rebecca, 11. 

Susannah, 43. 
Ferguson, Archibald, 2. 
Fitch, Elizabeth, 7. 

Joseph, 7. 

Samuel, 7. 

Sarah, 13. 

Thaddeus, 7. 

Zerviah, 25. 
Fisher, Jennet, 13. 
Fiske, Abigail, 59. 

Nathan, 52. 
Flanders, Hannah, 10. 
Fletcher, Elizabeth, 75. 

Hannah, 77. 

Jonathan, 75. 

Joseph, 75. 

Robert, 8. 

Sarah, 61, 62. 

William, 1 7. 
Folsom, David, 10. 

Dorothy, 10. 

William, 10. 
Foot, Isaac, 28. 
Fosdick, Martha, 50. 
Foster, Eli, 95. 

Hepsibah, 95. 

Prudence, 6. 
Fox, Jabez, 84, 85. 

John, 85, 93. 

Judith (Reyner), 84. 

Mary, 92. 
Franklin, Benjamin, 85. 

Josiah, 85. 

Samuel, 85. 
French, Benjamin, 14, 
40, 77. 



French, Frederick, 11. 

Josiah, 14. 

Theodore, 33. 

Thomas, 11. 
Fuller, Hannah, 89. 

Sarah, 10. 

Gay, Mary, 46. 
Gibbons, William, 84. 
Gil man, Peter, 28. 
Gilson, John, 91. 

Jonathan, 52. 

Naomi, 53. 

Sarah, 91. 
Glasford, Miranda, 28. 
Goble, Abigail, 5. 
Godding, Jonathan C, 
47. 

Peter, 47. 

Spencer, 47. 
Goffe, Hannah, 50. 
Goffe, John, 28, 39, 57, 

66. 
Goldthwait, Elizabeth, 

46. 
Goodnow, Asenath, 46. 

Ephraim, 46. 
Goodwin, Mary, 79. 
Gookin, Daniel, 82. 
Gould, Francis, 21. 

Hannah, 21. 

Johu, 21. 

Samuel, 21. 
Gove, Lydia, 43. 

Mary, 87. 
Gragg, Elizabeth, 63. 
Grant, Francis, 2. 

John, 2. 

Susannah, 2. 
Graves, Rebecca, 90. 

Sarah, 68. 
Green, Hannah, 68. 

Mary, 69. 

Samuel, 71. 

William, 60. 
Greene, William, 47. 
Grover, Thomas, 79. 

Hale, Bettv, 50. 

John, 40. 

Joseph, 40. 

Sarah, 33. 

Thomas, 40. 
Hall, Mary, 71. 

Nathan, 71. 
Hallet, Solomon, 13. 
Hardy, Enos, 55. 

Mary, 50, 53, 71. 



Nehemiah, 54. 
Harrington, Adino, 46. 

Elizabeth, 79. 

Lucy, 46. 

Mary, 79. 

Richard, 79. 
Hart, John, 7. 

Mary, 2. 

Samuel, 2. 
Hartwell, Samuel, 63. 

Sarah, 63, 72. 
Harwood, Watson II., 

2S. 
Haseltine, Betsey, 43. 

John, 43. 
Hassell, Abiah, 0, 88. 

Alice, 81. 

Anna, 6-36. 

Benjamin, 37, 7S. 

Esther, 27, 39, 59, (50. 

Joan, 81. 

Joseph, 36, 37. 

Richard, 59, 81. 
Hastings, Esther, 46. 
Haynes, Abigail, 59. 
Hayward, Persis, 81. 
Hazen, Benjamin, 5. 

Edward, 5. 

Jane, 5. 
Heaton, Jabez 36. 
Henchman, Thomas, 48. 
Hill, Bathsheba, 14. 

Jonathan, 76. 

Lucy, 76. 

Marv, 76. 

Phebe Cole, 44. 
Hilliard, Samuel, 44. 
Hills, Elizabeth, 3, 61. 

Hannah, 57. 

Joseph, 3, 61. 
Holden, Rachel, 50. 

Richard, 50. 

Sarah, 63. 

Stephen, 50. 
Holmes, Jehosaphat, 90. 
Honey, Bridget, 41. 

Caty, 21, 42. 

John, 21, 42. 

Peter, 3,41. 
Hooker, Sarah, 92. 

Thomas, 92. 
House, Combs, 28. 

Susannah, 28. 
Houstan, Rachel, 30. 
Howlet, Sarah, IS, 91. 
Hubbard, Abigail, 11,44. 

Jonathan, 7 

Rebecca, 7. 



100 



Index. 



Hubbard, Sarah C, 44. 
Hull, John, 17. 
Humphries, Francis, 71. 
Hunt, Hepsibah, 50. 

Jemima (Russell), 82. 

Jeremiah, 71. 

Joseph, 82. 

Mary, 71. 

William, 50, 71. 
Huntington, Lydia, 24. 

Matthew, 24. 
Hutchins, Jedediah, 29. 
Hutchinson, Asa, !'.">. 

Faith, 82. 
Hyde, Eleazer, 15. 

Hannah, 15. 

Mindwell, 15. 

Ingersol, Sarah, 58. 

Jackson, Elizabeth, 2. 

Nancy, 46. 

Ruth, 51. 

Thaddeus, 46. 
[agger, Elizabeth, 88. 
jefts, Hannah, 48. 
Jewell, James, 50. 
Jewett, Joanna, 51. 
Johnson, Dorothy, 10. 

Edward, 16. 

Hannah, 37. 

John, 37. 

Phebe, 82. 

Kendall, Abigail, 73. 

Cheever, 59. 

Elizabeth, 72. 

Francis, 81. 

Isaac, 72. 

Jacob, 29, 81. 

Alary, 50. 

Susanna, 73. 

Temple, 72. 
Keyes, Judith, 95. 
Kidder, Benjamin, 57. 

Frederick, 38. 

Hannah, 45. 

Rebecca, S9. 

Samuel, 89. 
Kimball, Priscilla, 63. 
King, George, 12. 
Kinsley, Elizabeth, 4,19, 
27, 78. 

Hannah, 4. 

Samuel, 4. 
Knapp, Elijah, 71. 

Huldah, 16. 



Lakin, Miriam, 63. 

William, 63. 
Lamb, Sarah, 46. 
Lane, John, 94. 

Mary, 76. 

Susannah, 7. 
Langdon, Samuel 9. 
Larkin, Mary, 63. 
Lawrence, Hannah, 50. 

Sarah, 71. 
Leach, Elizabeth, 45. 
Learned, Hannah, 47. 
Leonard, Lydia, 24. 
Lepingwell, Isabel, 5. 

Michael, 5. 

Tabitha 5. 
Linkfield, Edward 57. 
Lippincott, Jacob, 12. 
Longley, Sarah, 70. 
Lovejoy, Phebe, 14. 
Loveland, Irene Lyman, 

44. 
Lovewell, Bridget, 13. 

Elizabeth, 2, 3, 32. 

Esther, 80. 

Hannah, 66. 

John, 2, 3, 14,29,30, 
32, 50, 66, 67. 

Jonathan 21, 32, 33. 

Joseph, 14. 

Lucy, 9. 

Molly, 20, 77. 

Nehemiah, 7, 28. 

Noah, 80. 

Patience, 2. 

Phebe, 14. 

Zaccheus, 9, 29, 30. 
Lowe, Anna, 89. 

Joshua, SO. 
Lowell, Iohn,33,34,87. 

Percival, 34. 
Lund, Ephraim, 52. 

Jesse, 52. 

(onnna, 53. 

Jonathan, 54. 

Margaret, 62. 

Priscilla. 54. 

Rachel, 42. 

Sarah, 63. 

Thomas, 62. 

William, 42. 
Luther, Charity, 24. 
Lutwvche, Edward 

Goldstone, 39, 41. 
Lyon, Martha, 80. 

Matthew, 25. 

Marble, Elizabeth, 26. 



Marks, Mary, 56. 

Patrick, 55, 56. 
Marshall, Hannah, 95. 

Isaac, 95. 
Martin, Bridget, 74. 

Mary, 67. 

Sarah, 28. 
Mason, Hannah, 85. 
Matthews, James, 81. 
McClench, Elizabeth, 31. 
Mead, Larkin, G., 7. 
Meigs, Elizabeth, 24, 25. 
Melvin, Josiah, 10. 
Merrill, David. 81. 
Metcalf, Joseph, 63. 
Mills, Jacob, 42. 

John, 28. 

Martha, 42. 

Sarah, 87. 
Milton, Elizabeth, S5. 
Minot, James, 8. 
Moor, Mary, 7. 
Morrill, Mary, 31. 
Morse, Benjamin, 86. 

Deborah, 37, 41. 

John, 15. 

Martha Jane, 47. 

Mary, 86. 

Nathaniel, 15. 

Samuel, 37, 41. 
Mosely, Samuel, 78. 
Muzzey, Benjamim, 48. 

Nash, John, 89. 
Newell, Ezra, 71. 
Nichols, Joseph, 10. 

Moses, 10, 28. 
Noyes, Dorothy, 58. 

Peter, 58. 
Nutting, Elizabeth, 5. 

Jemima, 75. 

Jonathan, 69. 

Mary, 69. 

Sarah, 69. 

Susannah, 33. 

Ober, Elizabeth, 53. 
Oldham, Mary, 15. 
Ordway, Jonathan, 29. 
Osgood, Abigail, 78. 
Anna, 14. 

Page, Albert Gallatin, 
74. 
Betsey, 74. 
Edmund, 74. 
Frank Dwight, 74. 
Ruth, 46. 



Index. 



101 



Page, Sarah, 74. 
Paige, John, 7. 

Nathaniel, 7. 

Susannah, 7. 
Paine, Rebecca, 93. 
Park, Gideon, 89. 

Lois, 89. 
Parker, Benjamin, 69. 

Caty, 52. 

David, 69. 

Deliverance, 6. 

Hannah, 4, 68. 

Jacob, 17. 

James, 69, 82. 

John, 16, 17. 

Lydia, 6. 

Mary, 69. 

Nathaniel, 6. 

Ruth, 76. 

Thomas, 74. 

William, 76. 
Parkhurst, Abigail, 19. 

Isaac, 52. 

Mary, 5. 

Sarah, 76. 
Parris, Robert, 4, 83. 
Patten, Mary, 17. 

Samuel, 41. 

Thomas, 93. 

William, 93. 
Pcabody, Stephen, 81. 
Pearson, Joseph, 57. 
Peck, Elizabeth, 90. 

Faith, 90. 

Thomas, 90. 
Pellet, Mary. 

Sarah, 74. 

Thomas, 74. 
Perham, Sarah, 64. 

Susannah, 62, 75. 
Perkins, George Hamil- 
ton, 14. 

Roger Eliot, 14. 

Timothy, 14. 
I'erlev, Sidnev, 2. 
Perry, Anna, 6, 29, 36, 
37. 

Esther, 27 

Obadiah, 27, 29, 37 

William, 29. 
Peters. John, 89. 
Phelps, Hannah, 55. 
Phillips, Deborah, 45. 

Theophilus, 15. 
Pierce, Francis, 37. 

Rachel, 51, 52, 54. 

Stephen, 51, 52. 

Thankful, 52. 



Pike, Isaac, 53. 

Sarah, 39. 
Piper, Mary, 26. 
Pitts, John, 87. 
Pollard, Cummings, 55. 

Frances, 63. 

Lucy, 54. 

Solomon, 26. 

Thomas, 27. 
Porter, Abigail, 24. 
Powers, Nathan, 31. 
Prentice, Henry, 87. 

John, 6. 

Nathaniel, 87. 
Presby, Timothy-, 55. 
Prescott, Jonathan 86. 
Preston, Charles Albert, 
77. 

John, 77. 

Lucy Bancroft, 77. 

Lydia, 33. 

Samuel, 77. 
Proctor, Hannah, 34. 

Olive Fletcher 73. 

Rebecca P., 74. 
Putnam, John Jay, 7. 

Read, Christopher, 93. 

Elizabeth, 93. 

Israel, 82. 

John, 54. 

Silas, 55. 

Thomas, 4. 

James, L'-. 
Reeves, Samuel, 59. 
Reyner, John, 84. 
Reynolds, Daniel, 28. 
Rice, Chloe, 46. 

Isaac, 46. 

Nelly, 46. 
Richards, James, 84. 
Richardson, Abigail, 75 

Josiah, 57. 

John, 20. 

Lucy, 13. 

Mary, 13, 21, 53, 56 
76, 80. 

Susannah, 6, 36. 

Sybel, 20. 

Thomas, 75. 
Robbins, Esther, 70. 

Jonathan, 38, 48. 
Robinson, James, 89. 
Roby, Thomas, 50. 

William, 53. 
Rogers, James, 28. 

Robert, 8. 
Ross, Alexander, 85. 



Ros9, Elizabeth, 85. 
Rowell, Artemas. 71. 
Ruggles, Benjamim, 94. 

Samuel, 93, 94. 
Rushton, Alice, 18. 
Russell, Hannah, 94. 

Hubbard. 94. 

James, 87. 

Rebecca, 87. 

Sabins, Joseph, 47. 
Sammons, Martha, 24. 
Sanders, David, 28. 

Patty, 28. 

Thomas, 86. 
Sanderson, Susannah, 

70. 
Sargent, Nathaniel, 51. 

Olive, 51. 

Paul Dudley, 86. 
Savage, Habijah 82, 92. 

Mary, 92. 

Thomas, 82. 
Sawtell, Mary, 5. 

Zachariah, 5 
Sawtelle, Andrew, 74. 
Sawyer, Abigail, 7. 
Scollav, Grover, 89. 

Lydia, 89. 
Searles, Daniel, S2. 
Selman, John, 2. 
Sewell, Samuel, S3, 84. 
Shattuck, Hannah, 62. 

William, 48, 62. 
Shedd, Rachel, 55. 
Shepard, Benjamim, 52. 
Shurtleff, Giles, 45. 

Jonathan, 45. 
Sill, Joseph, 78. 
Smelt, Thomas, 85. 
Smith, Benjamin, 8, 39, 
43, 51, 53, 66, 67. 

Elias, 8, 12. 

Elizabeth, 8. 

Joanna, 53. 

Thomas, 86. 
Snow, Abigail, 28. 

Rebecca, 33. 
Solendine, John, 48, 88. 
Souther, Anne Stickney, 

14. 
Spalding, Andrew, 48, 
70. 

Betty, 9. 

Ebenezer, 49. 

Edward, 49. 

Hannah, 70. 

Henry, 48. 



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Spalding, Ira, 70. 

Joanna, 70. 

Joseph, 9. 

Lucv, 61. 

Rachel, 71-74. 
Spear, Margaret, 13. 
Stark, John, 8. 
Starr, Augustus, 9. 

Edward, 9. 

John, 9. 

Ebenezer, 9, 11. 

Hannah, 9. 

Jonathan, 9. 

Rebecca, 9. 

Sarah, 9. 
Stearns, Abigail, 15. 

John, 13. 

Sarah, 89. 

Zachariah, 89. 
Stickney, Thomas, 14. 
Stiles, Jacob, 72. 

Prudence, 72. 

Sarah, 72. 
Stimpson, James, 79. 

Thomas, 79. 
Stockwell, Charlotte, 4G. 

Emmons, 46. 
Stone, Mindwell, 33. 
Stower, Joanna, 57. 
Sumner, Hannah, 57. 
Swallow, Ambrose, 91. 

Mary, 91, 95. 
Swan, Ebenezer, 6. 

Josiah, 6. 

Mercy, 91. 

Prudence, 6. 

Richard, 91. 
Sylvester, Elizabeth, 2, 
3, 34. 

Esther, 36. 

John, 3. 

Joseph, 36. 

Richard, 34, 35, 36. 
Symmes, Thomas, 38. 
Symonds, Nathaniel, 12. 

Taplin, Hepsibah, 44. 

John, 43, 44. 

Mansfield, 43, 44. 

Polly, 44. 

Sophia, 44. 
Taylor, Abraham, 48. 

David, 49. 

Elizabeth, 30, 48, 62. 

John, 30. 

Mary, 72, 73, 74, 80. 

Rufus, 14. 

Samuel, 72. 



Taylor, Susannah, 72. 

Timothy, 7. 
Temple, Christopher, 29, 

37, 59. 
Thompson, Asa, 95. 

Elizabeth, 90. 

Mary, 95. 
Todd, James, 28. 
Toothaker, Allin, 20, 77. 

Esther (French) 76. 
Tor'rey, Naomi, 34, 35. 
Town, Peter, 60. 
Towne, Sarah, 52. 

Thomas, 52. 
Townsend, Martin, 29, 

60. 
Treadwell, Elizabeth, 1 2. 

Jacob, 12. 

Samuel, 12. 
Trowbridge, Caleb, 74. 

Hannah, 14. 
Trumbull, Samuel, 79. 
Twiss, Betsey, 71. 
Tyng, Deliverance, 64. 

Dudley Atkins, 83. 

Edward, 64, 78, 88, 
92. 

Eleazer, 7, 49. 

Hannah, 92. 

Jonathan, 56, 64, 88, 
92. 

Mary, 93. 

Stephen Higginson, 
83. 

William, 4, 37. 

Underwood, Elizabeth, 
75. 

Hannah, 63. 

James, 50. 

Remembrance, 57. 
Upton, Abigail, 68. 

Dorcas, 68. 

Joseph, 68. 

Mehitable, 68. 
Usher, Frances, S4. 

Hezekiah, 84. 

Robert, 4. 

Sarah, 84, 85, S7. 

Varnum, Jean, 51. 
Joseph, 60. 
Thomas, 51. 

Waddell, John, 13. 
Wadkins, John, 15. 
Wadsworth, Samuel, 66 
Wainwright, Francis, S3 



Waldo, Ann, 85. 

Daniel, 85. 

|ohn, 90. 
Walker, Elizabeth, 7. 
John, 46. 

William, 2S. 
Walton, Bridget, 75. 
John, 75. 

Martha, 75. 
Ward, Abigail, 25. 

Parthania, 24. 
Ware, Samuel, 42. 
Warner, Priscilla, 6. 

Samuel, 67, 68. 
Warren, Daniel, 23, 46. 

Hannah, 46. 

Sarah, 23, 94. 
Wearc, Meshech, 12. 
Webster, Samuel, 46. 
Weld, Thomas, 82. 
Went worth, Benning, 8. 

John, 11. 

Moses, .'!.".. 
Weston, Ebenezer, 80. 

Luc3 r , 80. 

Wyman, 8'J. 
Wheeler, Alice, 55. 

Peter, 55. 
Whipple, Susannah, 94. 
Whitaker, Mary, 48, 77. 
White, Hannah, 33. 
Whiting, Dorothy, 91. 

Elizabeth, 60. 

Samuel, 60, 92. 
Whitney, Aaron, 51 . 

Elizabeth, 23. 

Hannah, 45. 

James, 53, 63 

Jane, 47. 

Joseph, 63. 

Levi, 51. 

Phineas, 71. 

Rebecca, 63. 

Sarah, 54. 
Wiborne, Thomas, 36. 
Wickham, Frederick, 77. 
Wilkins, Andrew, 10. 

Daniel, 10. 

Hezekiah, 68. 

Mehitable, 68. 
Wilkinson, Ebenezer, 46. 

Sarah, 46. 
Willard, Samuel, S3. 

Simon, S3. 
Williams, Elizabeth. 68. 

Isaac, 69. 

Jason, 69. 

John, 69. 



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Williams, Thomas, 

68, 69. 
Wilson, Elizabeth, 92. 

Jemima, 70. 

John, 92. 

Prudence, 89. 

Samuel, 69. 
Winship, Josiah, 71. 

Noah, 71. 
Winslow, Edward, S7. 

Hannah, 87. 

John, 87. 
Withington, Samuel, 71. 
Wood, Benjamin, 69. 
Woodbridge, Martha, 
93, 94. 



Woodcock, William, 35. 
Woods, Benjamin, 80. 

Daniel, 53. 

David, 70. 

Diademia, 72. 

John, 70. 

Mary, 72, 73. 

Nathaniel, 18. 

Oliver, 18, 53, 80. 

Samuel, 18. 

Sarah, 53, 78, 80. 

Solomon, 72, 73. 

Susannah, 73. 
Woodward, Lydia, 46. 
Woolderson, Frances, 
25, 68. 



Wright, Amaziah, 25. 

Ebenczer, 25. 

John, 29, 50. 

Joseph. 29. 

Mary, 32. 

Nehemiah, 50. 

Priscilla, 29. 
Wyer, Daniel, 89. 
Wyman, Abigail, 26. 

Hannah, 82. 

Youngman, Nicholas, 32. 
Thomas, 32. 



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